Tulip Fever
Author | : Deborah Moggach |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781446485958 |
ISBN-13 | : 1446485951 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'A gorgeous novel' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception... Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble. Now a major film starring Oscar winners Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz and adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard.