The Art Restorer
by Julian Sanchez
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Pub Date Jul 08 2014 | Archive Date Sep 08 2014
Description
Enrique Alonso travels from his new home in Manhattan to San Sebastián, Spain, to attend the reopening of the San Telmo museum, where his ex-wife, Bety, works in public relations. There he meets American Craig Bruckner, a retired art restorer studying the museum’s collection of works by Sert—a contemporary of Picasso and Dalí who worked for the most famous billionaires of his time and whose mural American Progress graces the walls of Rockefeller Center. When Bruckner is found drowned in La Concha bay, Bety suspects foul play and Enrique agrees to help her look into the man’s death. Their investigation reveals a mystery connected with Sert’s checkered past, which provides fertile ground for the new thriller Enrique is writing, and the plot develops in parallel to his research.
Enrique and Bety’s reconstruction of the artist’s clandestine activities during World War II leads them to Paris, Barcelona, and New York, and in the process forces them to face their own past. But they are not the only ones interested in Sert’s work, and it appears there is more to his paintings than meets the eye.
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Advance Praise
“Sánchez respects the reader’s intelligence, reveals the necessary bits and plot twists at precisely the right intervals, and maintains perfect pace with multidimensional characters, which he wisely limits in number. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal on The Antiquarian
“An entertaining and surprising San Sebastián thriller that reveals unknown details about the painter Jose María Sert.” —Oscar López, director of Televisión Española’s book review program Página 2
“Sánchez hooks the reader with a plot sophisticated in its complexity yet still very easy to follow, and drives it at a frenzied pace.” —César Coca, El Correo
“The Art Restorer is a thriller in which we find mystery, intrigue, enigmas, art, greed, and love . . . that allows us to accompany the protagonist in the process of writing the novel, transforming it into a set of Russian dolls of novels within novels, successfully adding another interesting ingredient to the plot.” —El Placer de la Lectura
“Sanchez recovers one of the most questionable figures of the Franco era, Sert, and illustrates his life with vigor, reconstructing little by little his environment and his work beyond the fiction.” —Revista Krítika
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EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781480476981 |
PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
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