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A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two women, a long-lost Journal and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova\u2019s last great love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 1797, and an aging Casanova has returned to Venice in disguise to elude the authorities. There he meets Asked For Adams, the niece of American President John Adams, who is accompanying her father on a trade mission to the city just as Napoleon\u2019s army invades, throwing everything into flux. Casanova convinces Asked For to abandon her future the wife of a Yankee farmer and set out with him on a dangerous adventure through post-Byzantine Greece to Istanbul, which she records in intimate detail in her Journal-until the travel diary ends abruptly and mysteriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two hundred years later the Journal comes into the possession of Luce Adams, Asked For\u2019s 21st-century descendant, awkward, shy, and grieving her mother\u2019s death. En route to her mother\u2019s memorial service in Crete, accompanied by her mother\u2019s lover, and entrusted with delivering the precious letters between her ancestor and Casanova to the Venetian library, she becomes enmeshed in unraveling their story. And as the journeys of the two women come together, Luce finds her own way of moving through the world, and Asked For discovers how vulnerable the great Casanova is-a man whose appetite for life and generous spirit ignites possibilities in every person he touches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Possession<\/em> by A.S. Byatt, What Casanova Told Me<\/em> illustrates the mysterious influence of the past on the present and celebrates the unexpected in life and love, the lure of pleasure and freedom, and the transforming lessons of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Casanova Told Me<\/em> was a finalist for the 2004 Canada Caribbean Commonwealth Regional Prize and picked as one of The Globe and Mail\u2019s top books of 2004, as well as selected as one of top ten books of the year by Canada\u2019s Sun-Times, the Calgary Herald and Toronto\u2019s NOW magazine. The December edition of Macleans, Canada\u2019s national magazine, named the novel\u2019s protagonist Asked For Adams as one of the five best fictional characters for 2004 and said she was \u201cthe utterly charming core of Susan Swan\u2019s parallel-track historical novel, What Casanova Told Me<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberto Manguel, critic and author of The History of Reading<\/em>, says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSusan Swan has given us a great romantic novel. What Casanova Told Me is a graceful and literate meditation on the uneasy relationship between the New ?World and the Old, on the gossip of history, and on the nature of love. This is a sentimental education for our oblivious times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two women, a long-lost Journal and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova\u2019s last great love. It\u2019s 1797, and an aging Casanova has returned to Venice in disguise to elude the authorities. There he meets Asked For Adams, the niece of American President John Adams, who is accompanying … <\/p>\n

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