Dolce Agonia

10 hrs. 54 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Nancy Huston

Narrator Oborotov Yury

Description

Nancy Houston’s new book, familiar to the reader from the novel “The Angel’s Seal” (“The Text,” 2002), has been recognized as the writer’s summit of mastery and was nominated for the Goncourt Prize. Critics called the novel “A Beautiful Dance of Death,” and its psychological density has been compared to Ingmar Bergman’s films. Twelve friends gathered at a festive table on Thanksgiving Day. Each of them has their own life, worries, and joys… which are all known to another character—present in the company invisibly: God the Lord.

Despite the enormous success of the diary, Belle de Jour had been hiding her identity for a long time and only recently stepped out of the shadows. An elite London prostitute turned out to be a Bristol university employee, a doctor of medicine—Dr. Brooke Magnanti—well known in scientific circles, who worked as an escort while writing her doctoral dissertation…