by Susan Vreeland · Roca Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499189307
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«La lista de Lisette» is the historical novel by Susan Vreeland, published by Roca Editorial in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Paris, 1937: Lisette and André move to Provence to care for grandfather Pascal, a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne, who keeps paintings by them. Pascal instructs Lisette in art and life and has her write a list of promises. When war breaks out, André hides the paintings; in Vichy France, Lisette must find them and forgive the past.
Translation by Iolanda Rabascall of the English original published in 2014; the Spanish edition appeared in 2015.
A read for those who enjoy historical fiction, art, and stories of the Second World War.
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.
