Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of all the French villagers, the two of them against the world. And his surrogate father vanishes too, with no word of explanation.Mischa bears these scars into manhood. Only when his mother dies, revealing the existence of a priceless masterpiece, does he go on the trail of his own history. He makes a pilgrimage into the past, to that French village of his childhood, and there he uncovers the secret of the Gypsy Madonna.
- ISBN10 1416539131
- ISBN13 9781416539131
- Publish Date 27 March 2007 (first published 13 March 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Touchstone Books
- Format eBook
- Language English