A sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
Max Berenzon’s father is the most successful art dealer in Paris, owner of the Berenzon Gallery, home to both Picasso and Matisse. To Max’s great surprise, his father forbids him from entering the family business, choosing instead to hire a beautiful and brilliant gallery assistant named Rose Clément. When Paris falls to the Nazis, the Berenzons survive in hiding, but when they return in 1944 their gallery is empty, their priceless collection vanished. In a city darkened by corruption and black martketers, Max chases his twin obsessions: the lost paintings and Rose Clément.
- ISBN10 0307266850
- ISBN13 9780307266859
- Publish Date 17 February 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 25 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Knopf Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 243
- Language English