Portrait of an Unknown Lady
€17.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781787303249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Gainza |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.218 |
| Publishing Date | 03/03/2022 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €16.04 |
| Tax | €0.96 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €17.00 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?
From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve
*A TLS Book of the Year*
''A writer who feels immediately important'' Observer
At a hotel in Buenos Aires, a woman checks in under a pseudonym. She wears a black fur shawl and has no luggage. She is alone.
Over the coming days and nights, she tells a story, which begins with a secret shared in a local bath house, revealing art forgery and fraud on a dazzling scale. At its heart is an enigmatic genius who for years forged portraits of the city''s elite, before disappearing without trace. It is a story of influence and intrigue, in which nothing is as it seems. We''re not to expect ''names, numbers or dates'', she cautions, but a more subtle kind of reckoning...
Told in a mordant, irresistible voice and full of sharp surprises, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a captivating enquiry into what we mean by ''authenticity'', in life as in art. At once poised and capricious, elegant and bold, it is a thrilling exploration of the relationships between what is lived, what is told, what is remembered, and what is real.
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead