Based on a true story, this novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal - involving newly discovered van Goghs - that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. With her signature impeccable and evocative historical detail, Clare Clark explores the trio's complex relationships and motivations, their hopes, their vanities, and their self-delusions - for the paintings are fakes and they are in their own ways complicit.
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ISBN:9780544147577
Physical Description:print regular print 424 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Based on a true story, this novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal - involving newly discovered van Goghs - that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. With her signature impeccable and evocative historical detail, Clare Clark explores the trio's complex relationships and motivations, their hopes, their vanities, and their self-delusions - for the paintings are fakes and they are in their own ways complicit.
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