title: Vienna Nocturne: A Novel
author:  Vivien Shotwell 
description: <b>Advance praise for <i>Vienna Nocturne</i></b><br /> <b></b><br /> You dont have to be an opera buff to fall deep into <i>Vienna Nocturne</i>. Vivien Shotwell catapults you straight into the eighteenth century with abundant, vivid detail. I found Anna Storaces journey from prodigy to prima donna an irresistible tale.<b>Nancy Horan, author of <i>Loving Frank </i>and<i> Under the Wide and Starry Sky</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Passionate and yet precise, dense with feeling yet as clean as a bird in flight: This novel emulates Mozarts music even as it beautifully imagines his love for a memorable singer. What an excellent debut!<b>Andrea Barrett, National Book Awardwinning author of <i>Archangel</i> and <i>Ship Fever</i></b><br /> <b></b><br /> <i>Vienna Nocturne</i> is as finely intelligent as it is lushly romantic, and beautifully renders how much music can convey, even when its hardly the only expressive tool lovers have at hand. Very few novels have expressed as persuasively how it feels to be taken up by the kind of passions that, despite everything, can make a soul huge with life and joy.<b>Jim Shepard, author of National Book Award finalist <i>Like Youd Understand, Anyway</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Vivien Shotwell has written a novel that, like her heroine, the singer Anna Storace, is brilliant, warm, irresistible, and infinitely moving. Her descriptions of music, of her characters, of Venice and Vienna are so vivid and so richly compelling that I was amazed to look up from these pages and discover that I was still in Massachusetts. <i>Vienna Nocturne</i> is a transporting and deeply satisfying debut.<b>Margot Livesey, author of <i>The House on Fortune Street</i> and <i>The Flight of Gemma Hardy</i></b><br /> <br /> Vivien Shotwells love, knowledge, and passion for music shines through this seductive tale. A lovely read.<b>Eva Stachniak, author of <i>The Winter Palace</i></b><br /> <br /> Vivien Shotwell combines the keen observations of a fine writer with a musicians sense of structure and technique. She brings alive the mystery of music from the inside, and the effect is delightful. A remarkable accomplishment.<b>Thad Carhart, author of <i>The Piano Shop on the Left Bank</i></b><br /> <i></i><br /> Vivien Shotwells elegant, keenly observed debut is as deeply imagined as it is deeply felt. At turns lyrical and dramatic, witty and wise, <i>Vienna Nocturne</i> is both a fascinating portrait of a long-lost world and an introduction to a gorgeous new literary voice.<b>Jennifer DuBois, author of<i> Cartwheel</i></b><br /> <i></i><br /> <i>Vienna Nocturne</i> is a gorgeous symphony of a novel, the story, the prose, the sweet, sad whole of it both lush and perfectly controlled. Like much great music, it lures us in with the catchy and hummablean irresistibly glamorous love storybut hides depths beneath and between the melodies. I will never listen to Mozart the same way again.<b>Yael Goldstein Love, author of <i>The Passion of Tasha Darsky</i></b>
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  4 T R AV E L + L E I S U R E  |  N O V E M B E R  2 0 2 0
  November
  CONTENTS
  MAHEDER HAILESELASSIE
  Features
   
  THE VIENNESE HOUR
   
  With a group of hotels, 
  restaurants, and 
  bars run by next-gen 
  entrepreneurs, the 
  Austrian capital is ready  
  to let loose.
   
   IN THE RIGHT HANDS
   
  Photographer Frédéric 
  Lagrange introduces 
  portraits of the local 
  guides who helped open 
  the world to his lens. 
   
  AN AUTUMN SONATA
   
  A crescendo of youthful 
  energy has swept into the 
  Berkshires—and there’s  
  no better time than the  
  fall to see it.
   
  SKATING AWAY
   
  A writer and her 
  daughter bond on a 
  visit to a historic frozen 
  waterway in Ottawa. 
   
  Your Best Shot
   
  Reader Zoe Osborne 
  catches her partner 
  drinking yak-butter  
  tea on an exhilarating  
  trek through the  
  Nepalese Himalayas.
  ON THE COVER  
  Palm trees at Southlands Beach, 
   in Bermuda (page 30). Photograph 
  by Meredith Andrews.
  A girl learns to knit at the Enay Abida Craft Center,