Mr. de Prada was born in Baracaldo in 1970. "The Tempest," published in Spain in 1997, won him the Planeta Prize, and earlier this year a later book, "La Vida Invisible," was awarded the Primavera Prize. His prose, for the American, and particularly older American, reader is a new experience, switching between a range of gears from the intellectual to erotic, to the downright repellent in its earthiness - but eventually magnetizing.
The novel's tension swings between the appeal of Venice with its great art and the anxieties and apprehensions aroused in the newcomer, who quickly becomes enmeshed in a tangled web focusing on the Giorgione he has come to see. (A frontispiece helps the reader to visualize it.) The threads of this web include a love story, a murder mystery, betrayal, the politics of art masterworks acquisition, and details of their restoration and forgery, the techniques of which often are the same.
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