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Iain Pears

    August 8, 1955

    Iain Pears crafts narratives that delve into the intricate interplay of history, art, and human nature. His novels often explore how events are perceived and recounted from multiple viewpoints, uncovering truth through layers of interpretation. Pears excels at constructing compelling stories that challenge the reader's ability to discern fact from fiction. His style is marked by meticulous detail and intellectual depth, offering a rich and engaging reading experience.

    Iain Pears
    Arcadia
    An Instance of the fingerpost
    The Dream of Scipio
    The Portrait
    The Bernini Bust
    Giotto's Hand
    • Parallel Lives

      A Love Story from a Lost Continent

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      Parallel Lives2025
    • Arcadia

      • 608 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      The book was first released in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber Faber and Faber Ltd. in 2015. It showcases a unique narrative style and explores themes that resonate with contemporary readers, offering a fresh perspective on its subject matter. The publication marks a significant addition to the literary landscape of that year.

      Arcadia2015
      3.9
    • Stone's Fall

      • 608 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Set against a rich historical backdrop, this novel weaves a vast and intricate mystery that showcases the author's ambition and complexity. Following the success of "An Instance of the Fingerpost," the narrative promises to engage readers with its dazzling storytelling and multifaceted plot, inviting exploration into a world filled with intrigue and depth.

      Stone's Fall2009
      3.9
    • Ein wertvolles Landschaftsgemälde wird aus einer Ausstellung in Rom gestohlen. Flavia di Stefano, Dezernentin für Kunstraub, muss den politisch heiklen Fall diskret lösen. Ihr Mentor General Bottando warnt vor möglichen Konsequenzen, bietet aber seine Hilfe an, bleibt jedoch bei der Herkunft eines anderen Gemäldes geheimnisvoll.

      Diabolische Täuschung. Kriminalroman2006
      3.4
    • A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.

      The Portrait2005
      2.0
    • SuperPocket - 185: La Quarta Verità

      • 780 pages
      • 28 hours of reading

      Oxford 1663: un luogo e un momento storico di grandi fermenti politici, scientifici e religiosi. Un docente del New College viene trovato morto in circostanze misteriose. Una ragazza è accusata di stregoneria e di omicidio, e condannata all'impiccagione. Quattro testimoni raccontano la loro "verità": un cattolico veneziano, Marco da Cola; uno studente in medicina, Jack Prestcott; un insigne matematico e teologo, John Wallis; uno studioso dell'antichità, Anthony Wood. Ma uno soltanto di loro dice tutta la verità... Thriller di alto profilo e sorprendente originalità, sospeso tra finzione narrativa e fedele ricostruzione storica, "La quarta verità" ricrea magistralmente l'atmosfera, ma anche e soprattutto la mentalità di un'epoca tra le più complesse e affascinanti.

      SuperPocket - 185: La Quarta Verità2003
    • The Dream of Scipio

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title. schovat popis

      The Dream of Scipio2002
      3.9
    • When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back at all costs – without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the ransom. Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who casts a wholly unexpected light on the crime. In the meantime, her husband, English art historian Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, an Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on the wall of the general's apartment. Absorbing and ingeniously plotted, The Immaculate Deception is both a fascinating art-history puzzle and a gripping murder mystery as the search for the truth uncovers shocking secrets from the past and leads Argyll and Flavia into the path of some very dangerous enemies indeed.

      A Jonathan Argyll Mystery: The Immaculate Deception2000
      3.6
    • La Gaja scienza - 570: La quarta verità

      • 774 pages
      • 28 hours of reading

      Marco da Cola, gentiluomo di Venezia, presenta i suoi rispettosi ossequi. È mio desiderio narrare del viaggio che feci in Inghilterra nell'anno 1663, degli avvenimenti di cui fui testimone e delle persone che conobbi; argomenti, spero, non indegni dell'attenzione di quanti osservano con interesse le bizzarrie del mondo. Al tempo stesso, intendo con questo mio resoconto smascherare le menzogne di coloro che annoveravo un tempo, erroneamente, fra i miei amici. Il mio resoconto, credo, parlerà da sé. Molte cose ometterò, tuttavia nulla di significativo. Coloro che in tempi successivi mi fecero del male, li descriverò come li conobbi allora; mi asterrò del lanciare accuse ed eviterò di abbandonarmi a polemiche; racconterò la verità.

      La Gaja scienza - 570: La quarta verità1999