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The Vanished Collection

2022-01-11 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2022-01-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 991/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished Collection by : Pauline Baer de Perignon

Download or read book The Vanished Collection written by Pauline Baer de Perignon. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story."―The Washington Post It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo, and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents’ elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.

The Vanished Collection

2023-01-05 Art
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Release : 2023-01-05
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished Collection by : Pauline Baer de Perignon

Download or read book The Vanished Collection written by Pauline Baer de Perignon. This book was released on 2023-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open' Menachem Kaiser 'A terrific book' Le Point It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.

The Vanished

2016-09-20 Fiction
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Release : 2016-09-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 878/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished by : Lotte Hammer

Download or read book The Vanished written by Lotte Hammer. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called to investigate, new forensic evidence comes to light and something doesn't add up. Did the postman fall or was he pushed? When life-size images of a girl are discovered plastering the walls of the dead man's attic, the case takes a new and sinister turn. Who is she? Could she be alive? Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen discovers long-hidden skeletons in his own closet.

The Vanished Library

1990-08-29 History
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Release : 1990-08-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 558/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished Library by : Luciano Canfora

Download or read book The Vanished Library written by Luciano Canfora. This book was released on 1990-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.

The Vanished Birds

2020-08-18 Fiction
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Release : 2020-08-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 937/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished Birds by : Simon Jimenez

Download or read book The Vanished Birds written by Simon Jimenez. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold, lyrical and imaginative, this space opera is a must for fans of Becky Chambers and Alastair Reynolds Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship contracted to the Umbrai corporation, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past, and hunted by his present. For he is one of the few born with the gift of the Jaunt. The ability to travel instantly anywhere in the universe. An ability that threatens the vicelike control of the settled worlds by corporations such as Umbrai. Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist responsible for the design of bird-like Stations that Umbrai uses to control vast tracts of space, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years. Together, they set out to protect the boy, a journey that will cross the decades and light years all the way out to the fringes of settled space where the laws of civilisation do not apply, and they will have only each other to rely on.

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