The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel

Time to Read
7 hrs 8 mins

Reading Time

7 hrs 8 mins

How long to read The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel?

The estimated word count of The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel is 106,795 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 8 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 52 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 58 mins.

The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel - 106,795 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 11 hrs 52 mins
Average 250 words/min 7 hrs 8 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 58 mins
The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel by Margaux DeRoux
Authors
Margaux DeRoux

More about The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel

106,795 words

Word Count

for The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel

336 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 336 pages

11 hours and 29 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.“Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the Flowers in Paris In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one rainy Connecticut afternoon, a struggling painter appears at her door. William Lomazzo brings with him a sixteenth-century treatise on art, which Rose quickly identifies as a palimpsest: a document written over a hidden diary that had purposely been scraped away. Yet the restoration sparks an unforeseen challenge when William—a married man—and Rose experience an instant, unspoken attraction.Five centuries earlier, Renaissance-era Venetians find themselves at the mercy of an encroaching Ottoman fleet preparing for a bloody war. Giovanni Lomazzo, a portrait artist grappling with tragedy, discovers that his vision is fading with each passing day. Facing the possibility of a completely dark world, Gio begins to document his every encounter, including what may be his final artistic feat: a commission to paint the enchanting courtesan of one of Venice’s most powerful military commanders. Soon, however, Gio finds himself enraptured by a magnificent forbidden love. Spellbound by Gio’s revelations, Rose and William are soon forced to confront the reality of their own mystifying connection.A richly detailed page-turner shadowed by one of history’s darkest times, The Lost Diary of Venice weaves a heartbreakingly vivid portrait of two vastly different worlds—and two tales of entrancing, unrelenting love.