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Stockholm, December 1999. Madam Zoia, the enigmatic "painter on gold," is dead. The last surviving member of the Romanov court, she leaves behind a house full of paintings, a collection of private papers, and a mystery. Marcus Elliot travels to Sweden to write the catalog that will accompany the sale of her work. But something feels wrong. Behind the gilded serenity of Zoia's art lie the shadows of a secret life: a dramatic escape from the Bolshevik torturers of the Lubyanka prison, an artistic journey that embraced the excesses of Bohemian Paris, and an unearthly ability to command the devotion of desirable men. Marcus is to be Zoia's last, triumphant seduction, but with time against him, he must lay his own ghosts to rest -- the scandal that ruined him, the tragedy that shattered his childhood -- before the priceless truth can come within his grasp. In Zoia's Gold, Philip Sington seamlessly merges past and present, fact and fiction into a bewitching, compulsively readable novel of obsession, betrayal, and redemption. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I was never on fire for this book. It reminded me, marginally, of the first Girl With… book by Larsson. Sweden. A mystery. Piles of ephemera to be gotten through. A freezing cold house in the middle of the winter. The searcher, a man whose private and professional life is a mess. A mysterious girl who appears out of nowhere becoming the searcher’s lover and helping him with the mystery. Unscrupulous, evil people bent upon hindering the searcher’s search. But it was not anywhere near as interesting. Part of the problem may have been that Sington was hampered by Zoia being a real person. There was little room for manipulation. Fictionalizing of a real person’s life can only be played with just so much, or so it seems to me. To go way out on a limb seems to me to be risking some giant problems – even with the life of someone as super obscure as Zoia. Over all, I'd characterize this book as readable, but not mesmerizingly wonderful. ( )