La Divina Author:Anne Edwards Powerful story of fame, ambition, betrayal and grand passion. At the heart of the novel is La Divina, Athena Varos, whose great voice and extraordinary charisma fuel her rise to fame as one of this century's greatest opera divas, and whose sensational private life makes her - and the men who power her meteoric career and stir her emotions - ... more »into the stuff of legend. Set against a series of richly evocative backdrops - from the teeming immigrant hub of the Bronx of the 1930s to German-occupied Greece during the Second World War to the glittery, dazzling opera and monied society of Paris, Rome, Venice, New York, and Buenos Aires - La Divina is also the story of Varos's riveting and stormy affair with ruthlessly ambitious, sexually charged Greek shipping tycoon Mano Zakarias.« less