Product Description

Set in 18th century Italy, this novel takes the reader to the world of castrated male sopranos. Tonio Treschi is descended from a great Venetian family. Suddenly at 15, he is violently despoiled of his heritage, plunged into nightmare, trapped in a murderous family plot.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #199218 in Books
• Published on: 1991-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Customer Reviews

History, Passion and Singing in Italy
This was my first Anne Rice book and I was not disapointed, the incredible amount of research and detail that has gone into writing this book go to show just good she is at this!
The plot is a little confusing to start with but as it progresses the strands come together to make a complicated plot of family life, social life and art within 18th century Italy.
The depth of emotions and feelings portraited are amazing and the book becomes incredibly hard to put down once you get into it.
I would recomend this book to everyone with an interest in history, especially Italian, whether they are an Anne Rice fan or not.

An incredibly beautiful, disturbing and sensitive book
Cry to heaven is one of the best books I have ever read. I read about 50 books a year. Anne Rice writes so visually that I felt like a fly on the wall in voluptously over-ripe Venice witnessing the agonies and ecstacies of the characters. If this were made into a film it would be filmed with red and orange tints which could only begin to paint it in the richness that it deserves. Read it but make sure that you have nothing else scheduled because you will not put it down!

Sensitive and compassionate
A sensitive and compassionate look at the long vanished world of the castrati. Anne Rice evokes the Italy of the high opera with the same care and attention to detail that she has demonstrated in her other novels. Her finely crafted characters come to life with such vigour that you can almost hear the fragile soprano voices echoing out from the cathedrals and stages of europe. I could not put this book down.