In the full light of the sun
Clark, Clare
In the full light of the sun / Clare Clark - New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2019 - 424 p. ; 24 cm
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. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline,a young art student; Julius, an art expert; and a mysterious dealer named Rachmann all find themselves caught up in the astonishing discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent van Gogh. In the Full Light of the Sun 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. Theirs is a cautionary tale about of the aspirations of the new Germany and a generation determined to put the humiliations of the past behind them.
English
9780544147577
Lost works of art---Fiction
Berlin (Germany)---History---1918-1945----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR6103.L3725 / I5 2019
FIC CLA
In the full light of the sun / Clare Clark - New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2019 - 424 p. ; 24 cm
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. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline,a young art student; Julius, an art expert; and a mysterious dealer named Rachmann all find themselves caught up in the astonishing discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent van Gogh. In the Full Light of the Sun 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. Theirs is a cautionary tale about of the aspirations of the new Germany and a generation determined to put the humiliations of the past behind them.
English
9780544147577
Lost works of art---Fiction
Berlin (Germany)---History---1918-1945----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR6103.L3725 / I5 2019
FIC CLA
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