
An essential companion for every traveller to Venice this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers Javier Marias Century after century the essence of Venice is unchanging It is a place of contradictions equal parts glamour & chaos As a young man Javier Marias made the city his home; since then he has left & returned many times drawn back to its labyrinth of blind alleys its pearly green canals its imagined spaces His love affair with the city has lasted over thirty years
- he has traced every inch of its endless interior has lived among the Venetians & lived apart from them In Venice An Interior Marias sets out to uncover the heart of this strange & enchanting place