He endeavors to leave, only to be detained by a baggage mishap. Aschenbach watches Tadzio, across gilded rooms and on the cabana-lined waterfront, and begins to shadow the boy and his family through the labyrinthine city. Cosseted in the belle epoque luxury of the Grand Hôtel des Bains, he spies one evening a beautiful Polish adolescent named Tadzio and immediately becomes obsessed. In a 1911 letter to a friend, Mann described the in-progress Death in Venice as “a novella, serious and pure in tone, concerning a case of pederasty in an aging artist.” He added: “You say, ‘Hum, hum!’ but it is quite respectable.” Visconti’s movie stays faithful to the main events of Mann’s slender book: Gustav von Aschenbach, a Bavarian creative artist of considerable renown and querulous temperament, travels south for a stay on the Venice Lido. The concern over explicitness, of course, had everything to do with the charged subject matter-potentially incendiary in its time and discomfiting to this day. The movie divided critics upon its release, and many of its detractors invoked what is often deemed a cardinal sin of adaptation-namely, that Visconti’s film made explicit what Mann’s 1912 novella, one of the most celebrated, analyzed, and debated works of twentieth-century literature, had kept implicit. Cain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa-his 1971 version of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice is perhaps the one that most fully showcases both the challenges and the possibilities of page-to-screen translation. 'Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.' - The Boston Globe 'An excellent English author of crime fiction.Of the numerous literary adaptations that Luchino Visconti directed-based on works by James M.

From the Diamond Dagger - winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, this is a novel of secrets, betrayals, and twisting, turning suspense. And as Sarah questions her marriage, the police are questioning Michael about a murder. The journey was meant to be a sunny escape, but storm clouds are clearly brewing. And eventually they are joined by two mysterious drifters - one of whom claims to be a mercenary. But among their little group of tourists, there is even darker strife: One woman confides to Michael that her husband is violent, while that same husband propositions Sarah shamelessly. Michael has little patience for Sarah's sentimental nature or her stubborn insistence on socializing with their fellow travelers. But so far the trip hasn't been especially romantic.

Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice - Italy's most romantic city. Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: 'Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers' ( Orlando Sentinel).

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