Der Psychiater Andrew Marlow führt ein perfektes Leben. Einsam vielleicht, doch voller Hingabe an Beruf und Passion, die Malerei. Doch ein neuer Patient bringt seine Welt ins Wanken: Robert Oliver, ein bekannter Maler, hat versucht, ein Werk in der National Gallery of Art zu zerstören. Marlow offenbart sich eine Geschichte voller Obsessionen und Verluste, eine Tragödie im Herzen des französischen Impressionismus. Nach 'The Historian' ein weiterer viel versprechender Roman von E. Kostova.

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress for The Historian. Klappentext Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope. Zusammenfassung * The highly anticipated new novel by the author of the international bestseller THE HISTORIAN.

Autorentext
Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress for The Historian.

Klappentext

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient.

Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.

Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.

Zusammenfassung

• The highly anticipated new novel by the author of the international bestseller THE HISTORIAN.