This autobiographical gothic novel moves across time and continents, from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It tells the story o... » 

This autobiographical gothic novel moves across time and continents, from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It tells the story of three charismatic figures, bound to one another by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, or liberation. «