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"'Emotional, riveting and unexpected' Easy Living"
Easy Living
'Startlingly original ... emotional, riveting and unexpected.'
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Literary opium,
By NataliaBr "NataliaBr" (Oxford) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zoia's Gold (Paperback)
The bloody turmoil of revolutionary Russia and the decadence of inter-war Paris form the backdrop to this fascinating real-life mystery. The novel is based on the life of Zoia, an exiled Russian painter and aristocrat, and the cache of private papers she left behind at her death in 1999. After Zoia's death, a disgraced art dealer with an unhappy and mysterious connection to the artist sets out to unearth her well-guarded secrets with dramatic and unpredictable consequences.
This book mixes past and present brilliantly; you can feel the one bleeding into the other (at some points almost literally). It is also highly addictive, as the reader comes to share the dealer's obsession with Zoia and her past. A dark, sexy, unforgettable journey.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book,
By Sarah76 (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zoia's Gold (Paperback)
A book group hit. Strikingly well written, ingenious story, moving and shocking in places. Will definitely look out for more from this writer.
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Seductive tale of a real-life survivor,
This review is from: Zoia's Gold (Paperback)
This part-historical, part-contemporary novel about a seductive Russian painter with a dark past, artfully combines the authenticity you would expect from a true story with the drive of a modern mystery. After about seventy reasonably intriguing pages, it sink its hooks into you and becomes incredibly compelling. Something similar happens to the protaganist, a disgraced art dealer who believes Zoia played a part in the tragedy that destroyed his childhood (and more besides). The novel follows his mounting obsession with revealing Zoia's secrets, cut with visions of her past in revolutionary Russia, and the decadent Paris of the 1920s. A feast of a book that you wish you could take slowly, but end up bolting all the same.
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