Pazzi, Roberto

New York. 1990. May 1990. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394572556. Translated from the Italian by M. J. Fitzgerald. 162 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Italy Russia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From the author of SEARCHING FOR THE EMPEROR, a novel about the strange life and death of the beautiful, haunted brother of the last tsar of Russia. At the turn of the century in his lonely palace in the Caucasus, young royal Grand Duke George, sick with tubercular fever, exiled from court for his own good to the pure air of the mountains, is driven to rebel. As he feels the century dying and the history of the Romanovs pressing down ever darker around him, he strikes out for freedom. He will found a new kingdom and summon his beloved cousin, Helen, to his side as his consort and wife. His new subjects, the legendary Georgians who so often live to be more than one hundred years old, will teach him the secret of conquering time and mortality. But his escape into the night is the beginning of a journey that will take him dizzyingly into history - into the past and into the future, into the reign of the dead and into the equally terrifying world of a Georgian monster as yet unknown who will rule Russia when the last Romanovs fall. . Blending the factual and the miraculous, Pazzi's storytelling has a unique poetry. inventory #14284 ISBN: 0394572556.