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Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Engelsk Paperback
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Engelsk Paperback

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In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?

From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve

*A TLS Book of the Year*

''A writer who feels immediately important'' Observer

At a hotel in Buenos Aires, a woman checks in under a pseudonym. She wears a black fur shawl and has no luggage. She is alone.

Over the coming days and nights, she tells a story, which begins with a secret shared in a local bath house, revealing art forgery and fraud on a dazzling scale. At its heart is an enigmatic genius who for years forged portraits of the city''s elite, before disappearing without trace. It is a story of influence and intrigue, in which nothing is as it seems. We''re not to expect ''names, numbers or dates'', she cautions, but a more subtle kind of reckoning...

Told in a mordant, irresistible voice and full of sharp surprises, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a captivating enquiry into what we mean by ''authenticity'', in life as in art. At once poised and capricious, elegant and bold, it is a thrilling exploration of the relationships between what is lived, what is told, what is remembered, and what is real.

Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead













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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781787303249
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787303241
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Udg. Dato:
3 mar 2022
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
134mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
3 mar 2022
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