Palace of Memory: The Secret to King Roger of Sicily's Pleasure Garden

Author: James Cowan
Publisher: Speculum Books
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Hardcover

What is the secret of King Roger's pleasure garden? Dr Roberto Balducci, a retired archaeologist, is invited to Palermo by an elderly marchesa to take charge of the papers of her late husband, Don Francesco di Valenti. He arrives to discover that the Don has spent his life researching a pleasure garden known as La Favara, once the country retreat of the twelfth-century King Roger of Sicily. The marchesa wants to discover whether her husband's untimely death is in some way linked to the king's. Dr Balducci finds himself seduced by Don Francesco's obsessions. La Favara begins to reveal its secrets. Reading the Don's notebooks, and exploring the city's archives, he uncovers letters, documents that reveal the full extent of the activities which occurred at La Favara during King Roger's reign. It is none other than a garden of the mind. Palace of Memory by award-winning author James Cowan explores the way our memory become the servant of fact. Through Balducci's eyes we are brought face-to-face with the constraints of thought when it is solely in their service. Walking along the dream-like avenues of La Favara is to finally break with the tyranny of the real, as men from the past parade along its sunlit avenues.

Author Biography

James Cowan is author of a number of internationally acclaimed books, including The Painted Shore, A Troubadour's Testament and Letters from A Wild State. In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal for his novel, A Mapmaker's Dream. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.

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SKU BK-9781999905378
Barcode # 9781999905378
Brand Speculum Books
Artist / Author James Cowan
Shipping Weight 0.4500kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
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Assembled Height 2.060m
Assembled Width 20.300m
Type Hardcover

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