The Paris Thief: A Novel - Couverture souple

Rochon, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1443472700 ISBN 13 : 9781443472708

Editeur : HarperAvenue, 2026

Synopsis

For readers of The Nightingale, The Paris Library and All the Light We Cannot See, a page-turning story of love, betrayal and sacrifice, and one woman’s complicated connection to the world’s greatest masterpiece, from the bestselling author of Tuscan Daughter.

1910: Eighteen-year-old Mathilde has escaped her lonely provincial childhood to become a painter in Montmartre. Moving in bohemian circles, she models for Picasso and lives hedonistically amongst the artists, writers and intellectuals of Paris, indulging her passions and her ambitions in art and love. But when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre, and some of Mathilde’s friends and lovers become suspects, life takes a dramatic turn.

1940: As the enemy marches into Paris, Mathilde, now an archivist at the Louvre working quietly under a new identity, is tasked with the evacuation of hundreds of priceless masterpieces to the sprawling Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. With her she carries a secret—the Mona Lisa is under her sole protection and she vows to hide it from the Nazi occupiers. Nobody must discover its whereabouts. It isn’t until a lover from her past arrives at the château, dressed in a Nazi uniform, that Mathilde finds herself agonizingly torn between her sworn duty to France and a love that still endures.

The Paris Thief brilliantly celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in times of immense upheaval and draws readers into a story of hard-fought love and the reasons why enemy armies are driven to plunder and possess beauty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LISA ROCHON is the author of the bestselling novel Tuscan Daughter. She is also an award-winning architecture critic, cultural commentator and essayist. She is the two-time winner of a National Newspaper Award for her “City Space” column in The Globe and Mail and the recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s President’s Award for Architectural Journalism. Educated at the University of Toronto and in Paris at Sciences Po and École du Louvre, she is passionate about seeing the world afresh and with new complexity through female eyes. Rochon splits her time between Toronto and Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperAvenue
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443472700
• ISBN 13: 9781443472708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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