The Venetian mirrors it's an interesting book. It has hooked me enough, of I begin it's the well-read one in one week and one would turn it to read.
It isn't a very long book and the history is good enough.
A student of Naples comes to Padua and the palazo of the Balzzani meets the mystery. Thanks to the help of his friends, Lena and Paolo, of his teacher Giacomo Amadio, of some of his companions of class and of the lady who first offered him house, Alessandra. There discovers the mystery of the Balzzani and of Beatrice Balzzani, more known like " the one that never died ".
An astrologer throws a curse to his family, which is that the descent Balzzani will die and with her the surname. Beatrice Balzzani is the last one and dies. Behind of two Venetian mirrors that there is in the palazzo this one the secret, a parchment in that of the masks and in other one, Beatrice's body. Giovanni Conti (the protagonist) manages to verify the secret and to preserve it between his friends and his teacher that they help him to follow the last will of the poor Beatrice.
Joan Manuel was born in Barcelona in 1949. And it started working soon with some publishing houses. It travelled to Paris to study theatre and when it turned escrbió his first book in 1979, fantastic scenes.
It was compared by the critics by authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and dedicated his author as the maximum exponent of the fantastic trend inside the infantile literature. In his works, Gisbert develops adventures that depart from the daily life, of which also the dreams form a part, to enter the unknown thing.
Joan Manuel Gisbert works also as publishing adviser, gives courses on the fantastic imagination and takes part often in days and meetings on infantile literature. It has realized also scripts for television.
