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Titre: Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Condition: Neuf
Auteur: Maria Gainza
Traducteur: Thomas Bunstead
Contributeur: Thomas Bunstead (Translated by)
Format: Poche
ISBN-10: 1787303241
EAN: 9781787303249
ISBN: 9781787303249
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Genre: Fiction
Sujet: Arts & Photography
Date de publication: 2022-03-03
Description:

In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?

From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve

*A TLS Book of the Year*

'A writer who feels immediately important' Observer

At a hotel in Buenos Aires, a woman checks in under a pseudonym. She wears a black fur shawl and has no luggage. She is alone.

Over the coming days and nights, she tells a story, which begins with a secret shared in a local bath house, revealing art forgery and fraud on a dazzling scale. At its heart is an enigmatic genius who for years forged portraits of the city's elite, before disappearing without trace. It is a story of influence and intrigue, in which nothing is as it seems. We're not to expect 'names, numbers or dates', she cautions, but a more subtle kind of reckoning...

Told in a mordant, irresistible voice and full of sharp surprises, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a captivating enquiry into what we mean by 'authenticity', in life as in art. At once poised and capricious, elegant and bold, it is a thrilling exploration of the relationships between what is lived, what is told, what is remembered, and what is real.

Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead


Sujet: Espagnol
Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
Item Height: 216
Item Length: 135.00
Item Width: 15.00
Poids: 211g
Année de publication: 2022

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