A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception--now a major motion
picture
In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men
are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant
Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who
stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will
bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy.
Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to
produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them
both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins
to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn
between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist.
As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's
inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception--and
as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has
created the rarest of novels--a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is
also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time,
a place, and a passion.
Praise for Tulip Fever
**
"Sumptuous prose . . . reads like a thriller."--The New York Times
Book Review**
"An artful novel in every sense of the word . . . deftly evokes
seventeenth-century Amsterdam's vibrant atmosphere."--Los Angeles
Times
"Need a brief escape into a beautiful and faraway world? Deborah
Moggach's wonderful Tulip Fever can offer you that."--New York
Post
"Taut with suspense and unexpected revelations."--Entertainment
Weekly
"Elegantly absorbing."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
