![]() Someone seems intent on outing her.Īs Berne tries to uncover the truth of who has leaked her secrets, we burrow deep into her uncommonly action-packed history. But then she discovers the libretto is based on events from a sordid past she’s long sought to erase. When a mysterious stranger offers the celebrated soprano Lilliet Berne, whose Falcon voice is as rare as it is delicate, a custom-written role in a new opera, it seems like the chance of a lifetime. The Queen of the Night, Chee’s 15-years-in-the-making follow-up to his Whiting Award–winning debut, Edinburgh, is a tautly plotted historical doorstopper of a book that, even at nearly 600 pages, somehow rarely falters or drags. ![]() ![]() To call Alexander Chee’s epic new novel ambitious is something of an understatement. ![]()
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