History of a Pleasure Seeker

Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier a child who refuses to leave his family s mansion on one of Amsterdam s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glitt [...]
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Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier a child who refuses to leave his family s mansion on one of Amsterdam s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets and finds his life transformed.
A brilliantly written portrait of the senses, History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe s Belle Epoque, written with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original."