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British author Montefiore (Last Voyage of the Valentina) offers up an uneven mix of family intrigue and international mystery in her latest. When Anouk, the ailing mother (and business partner) of Manhattan antiques dealer Mischa, donates The Gypsy Madonna, a previously unknown Titian painting, to the Met shortly before her death, Mischa is astonished; he never knew she owned the painting. After Mischa vows to discover how the artwork came into his mother's possession, the novel flashes back to his troubled childhood in postwar Bordeaux, France. He and Anouk are shunned by their fellow villagers, but after a charismatic American, Coyote, arrives and wins Anouk's and Mischa's hearts, the dashing stranger's celebrity-like status among the locals rubs off on Mischa and Anouk. The three, at Coyote's insistence, move to New Jersey, but after several years of playing house, Coyote disappears, and Mischa begins to run with a rough crowd. Graphic sex scenes add grit, but Mischa's coming-of-age mostly putters along until the book's concluding section, when Mischa's globe-trotting investigation into the truth about the painting lays bare a number of secrets. Unfortunately, the bulk of the book is an extended flashback that lacks narrative urgency. (Mar.)
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Mischa Fontaine was born in a French village in 1941, the son of a German army officer. In the bitter aftermath of World War II, his parentage leads to both Mischa and his mother, Anouk, being tortured and ostracized. When he is six, a stranger named Coyote arrives in the village, falls in love with Anouk, and eventually convinces Anouk and Mischa to flee with him to America, where they settle in New Jersey. Fast forward to 1985: Anouk is dead, and Mischa, who thought he knew everything about his mother, is shocked to learn that she donated an original Titian, The Gypsy Madonna, to the Met shortly before her death. Where did Anouk get the priceless painting? As Mischa tries to unravel the mystery, he is forced to confront his past, with its tortuous, bittersweet memories. This surprisingly nuanced romantic saga is chockablock with all the right ingredients: love, hate, sentiment, magic, and mystery. Montefiore's Last Voyage of the Valentina (2006) was a hit with the Maeve Binchy crowd; this one will be, too. Emily Melton
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British author Montefiore (Last Voyage of the Valentina) offers up an uneven mix of family intrigue and international mystery in her latest. When Anouk, the ailing mother (and business partner) of Manhattan antiques dealer Mischa, donates The Gypsy Madonna, a previously unknown Titian painting, to the Met shortly before her death, Mischa is astonished; he never knew she owned the painting. After Mischa vows to discover how the artwork came into his mother's possession, the novel flashes back to his troubled childhood in postwar Bordeaux, France. He and Anouk are shunned by their fellow villagers, but after a charismatic American, Coyote, arrives and wins Anouk's and Mischa's hearts, the dashing stranger's celebrity-like status among the locals rubs off on Mischa and Anouk. The three, at Coyote's insistence, move to New Jersey, but after several years of playing house, Coyote disappears, and Mischa begins to run with a rough crowd. Graphic sex scenes add grit, but Mischa's coming-of-age mostly putters along until the book's concluding section, when Mischa's globe-trotting investigation into the truth about the painting lays bare a number of secrets. Unfortunately, the bulk of the book is an extended flashback that lacks narrative urgency. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Mischa Fontaine was born in a French village in 1941, the son of a German army officer. In the bitter aftermath of World War II, his parentage leads to both Mischa and his mother, Anouk, being tortured and ostracized. When he is six, a stranger named Coyote arrives in the village, falls in love with Anouk, and eventually convinces Anouk and Mischa to flee with him to America, where they settle in New Jersey. Fast forward to 1985: Anouk is dead, and Mischa, who thought he knew everything about his mother, is shocked to learn that she donated an original Titian, The Gypsy Madonna, to the Met shortly before her death. Where did Anouk get the priceless painting? As Mischa tries to unravel the mystery, he is forced to confront his past, with its tortuous, bittersweet memories. This surprisingly nuanced romantic saga is chockablock with all the right ingredients: love, hate, sentiment, magic, and mystery. Montefiore's Last Voyage of the Valentina (2006) was a hit with the Maeve Binchy crowd; this one will be, too. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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