by Susan Vreeland · Roca Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416240296
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In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband André move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for André's grandfather, Pascal. Dedicated to selling pigments and producing wooden frames, Pascal befriends Pissarro and Cézanne, who pay him with paintings. Lisette, inspired by Pascal, writes a list of promises. When war breaks out, André goes to the front and hides Pascal's paintings. Faced with the German expansion, Lisette must search for the hidden paintings, discovering the French countryside. Through joys, tragedies, and courage, Lisette learns to understand and forgive the past in an era that marked the destiny of Europe. A story of art, love, and war in Vichy France.
Susan Joyce Vreeland was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. The Forest Lover is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
