Stolen Beauty: A Novel

Stolen Beauty: A Novel

â€œA powerful and important tale of love and war, art and familyâ€¦I was transported.â€ â€”Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author

â€œAlbanese artfully weaves Adeleâ€™s story with Mariaâ€™s harrowing life under the Nazis, but itâ€™s hard to read Stolen Beauty without seeing ugly echoes in todayâ€™s headlines. Seven decades after World War II, have we learned nothing?â€ â€”USA TODAY

From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimtâ€™s most remarkable paintings.

In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauerâ€”young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewishâ€”meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom, Adele embraces Klimtâ€™s renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities on the canvas and beyond. Though they enjoy a life where sex and art are just beginning to break through the faÃ§ade of conventional society, the city is also exhibiting a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism, as political hatred foments in the shadows of Adeleâ€™s coffee house afternoons and cultural salons.

Nearly forty years later, Adeleâ€™s niece Maria Altmann is a newlywed when the Nazis invade Austriaâ€”and overnight, her beloved Vienna becomes a war zone. When her husband is arrested and her family is forced out of their home, Maria must summon the courage and resilience that is her auntâ€™s legacy if she is to survive and keep her familyâ€”and their historyâ€”alive.

Will Maria and her family escape the grip of Nazisâ€™ grip? And what will become of the paintings that her aunt nearly sacrificed everything for?

Impeccably researched and a â€œmust-read for fans of Kristin Hannahâ€™s The Nightingale and Paula McLainâ€™s Circling the Sunâ€ (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Stolen Beauty intertwines the tales of two remarkable women across more than a hundred years. It juxtaposes passion and discovery against hatred and despair, and shines a light on our ability to love, to destroy, and above all, to endure.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-02-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501131981

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-02-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501131981

Stolen Beauty: A Novel

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