By Elizabeth Kostova
ISBN-10: 0316071641
ISBN-13: 9780316071642
Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a wonderfully ordered life--solitary, possibly, yet jam-packed with devotion to his occupation and the portray pastime he loves. This order is destroyed while the well known painter Robert Oliver assaults a canvas within the nationwide Gallery of artwork and turns into Marlow's sufferer.
When Oliver refuses to speak or cooperate, Marlow unearths himself going past his personal felony and moral barriers to appreciate the key that torments this silent genius, a trip that may lead him into the lives of the ladies closest to Robert Oliver and towards a tragedy on the center of French Impressionism.
Moving from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the overdue 19th century to the overdue 20th, from younger like to final love, THE SWAN THIEVES is a narrative of obsession, the losses of historical past, and the facility of paintings to maintain human hope.
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Her hood is edged with fur that hides all but the white curve of her cheek. The hem of her dress has a geometric border of pale blue. She is walking away with a bundle in her arms, something wrapped tightly, as if against the cold. The trees hold their branches numbly toward the sky; they frame the road. Someone has left a red cloth on the bench in front of the house at the end of the lane—a shawl, perhaps, or a small tablecloth, the only spot of bright color. The woman shields her bundle with her arms, with her gloved hands, turning her back on the center of the village as quickly as possible.
He looked down then and sighed as if it hurt him even to exhale. “No. You don’t understand. I wasn’t attacking her. ” “For someone else? ” I kept my gaze fixed on him. “Did you feel you were doing it for your wife? ” “You can talk with her,” he said, as if he didn’t care one way or the other. “You can even talk with Mary if you want. You can look at the pictures if you want. I don’t care. ” I asked. It was not his ex-wife’s name. I waited a little, but he was silent. “Are the pictures you mentioned pictures of her?
Then he stopped and let himself just be led away, for some reason. The museum is trying to decide whether or not to press assault charges. ” I studied the backyard again. ” “Just a pocketknife. Nothing dramatic, but he could have done a lot of damage. He was very excited, thought he was on a heroic mission, and then broke down at the station, said he hadn’t slept in days, even cried a little. ” I could hear John waiting for my answer. ” I knew, and laughed. Turning fifty just two years before had shocked us both, and we’d covered it by celebrating with several friends who were in the same situation.
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