1900: Adele Bloch-Bauer—young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish—meets the modern painter Gustav Klimt in turn-of-the-century Vienna when sex, art, and anti-Semitism are just beginning to break through the façade of conventional society. Her intoxicating vulnerability and intensity fuel a love triangle that threatens her world, even as it ignites the creation of Klimt’s greatest works: Judith, the blood-lusty femme fatale; the Portrait of Adele in gold, and the voluptuous Kiss.
But political hatred is brewing. A hungry young artist haunts Vienna’s streets and museums, and his name is Adolf Hitler.
1938: Maria Altmann is a love-struck newlywed when the Nazis invade Austria, and overnight, her beloved Vienna becomes a war zone. When her husband is arrested and her family is forced out of their beautiful, stately home on the Ringstrasse, Maria must summon a courage she never knew she possessed—and faces impossible risks in order to preserve the legacy of heroism and brilliance that her aunt, the renowned Adele Bloch-Bauer, instilled in her.
Twining the tales of two remarkable women across more than a hundred years, Stolen Beauty juxtaposes passion and discovery against hatred and despair, and shines a light on our ability to love, to destroy, and above all, to endure.
- ISBN10 1501167049
- ISBN13 9781501167041
- Publish Date 18 May 2017 (first published 7 February 2017)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atria Books
- Edition Export
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English