Stolen Beauty: A Novel

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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 1903 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 troubled by a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism as political hatred simmers in the shadows of Adeleâ€™s coffeehouse 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 stately home, Maria must summon the courage and resilience that is her auntâ€™s legacy if she is to survive and keep her loved onesâ€”and their historyâ€”alive.

Will Maria and her family escape the grip of Nazi rule? And what will become of the paintings for which her aunt sacrificed nearly everything?

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 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
Author	Laurie Lico Albanese
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781501132001
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
NumberOfPages	321
PublicationDate	2017-02-07
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2017-02-07
Studio	Atria Books

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