{"title": "Territorial rights", "covers": [4437062, 11493169, 9002685], "subject_places": ["Venice (Italy)", "Italy"], "first_publish_date": "1979", "key": "/works/OL26422W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL26160A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Man-woman relationships", "British", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Italy, fiction", "Man-woman relationships, fiction", "Venice (italy), fiction", "Fiction, general", "Fiction in English", "Fiction, romance, suspense", "Travel"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for a staid academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties, and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart's desire, the city itself provides a priceless education in love, art, and beauty. Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, and sumptuous settings as a comic opera."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-12T22:31:17.033421"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-04-20T03:25:47.520502"}}