![]() ![]() ![]() I am loathe to share any more of the plot of The Passion because much of the joy that comes from reading this book is its ability to continually surprise. The pair meet in Russia, where Henri falls in love with Villanelle, deserts the army and, along with a defrocked Irish priest Patrick, they start the two-thousand mile trek back to Venice, that city of dreams and chance, where they will meet their singular destinies. Not figuratively speaking, she quite literally keeps it in a jar. Her passion is for a married woman, who has stolen her heart. Meanwhile in Venice, Villanelle is the flame-haired, cross-dressing, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, who makes her living as a croupier and pickpocket. His passion for his leader leads him from war to inevitable war and from glory in France to frozen destitution in Russia.Īh folly, but I think if Bonaparte had asked us to strap on wings and fly to St James’s Palace we would gave set off as confidently as a child lets loose a kite. Henri, is a simple French soldier, whose sole job is to prepare chickens for Napoleon’s dinners each night. The Passion interweaves the stories and destinies of two remarkable characters. The Passion is a short, hypnotic and vibrant novel set against the backdrop of Napoleon’s tumultuous campaigns in Europe and Russia in the early 1800s. ![]()
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