Vienna Passion

by Lilian Faschinger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.44

  Rosa Havelka is a woman of her time. From a Prague orphange to the bedrooms of the Austro-Hungarian court. Rosa shines through the sordid glamour of fin de siecle Vienna, and makes it her own. In her footsteps follows Magnolia Brown, a young New Yorker beginning a tentative romance with her singing teacher in modern day Vienna.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.44

  Vienna Passion is a novel of love, mistresses and music. It tells the story of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. Rosa's story is interleaved with another woman's tentative romance: that of Magnolia, a young New Yorker, and her singing-teacher in Vienna. Despite her lover's hypochondria and mother-fixation, however, Magnolia is just as much her own woman as Rosa ever was. More so, indeed, than either woman could ever have imagined.