Bibliograph

The stolen lady, a novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa, Laura Morelli

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The stolen lady, a novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa, Laura Morelli

Language

eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The stolen lady

Responsibility statement

Laura Morelli

Sub title

a novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa

Summary

France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, an archivist at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, the Nazis stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. Anne is sent to the château of Chambord, where the Louvre's most precious artworks -- including the Mona Lisa -- are being transferred. As the threat grows closer, Anne learns the truth about her brother. Florence, 1479. House servant Bellina Sardi's future seems fixed when she accompanies her newly married mistress, Lisa Gherardini, to her home across the Arno. But soon, Bellina finds herself bewitched by a monk who has urged Florentines to rise up against the Medici and empty their homes of the riches her employer prizes. When Master Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint a portrait of Lisa, Bellina finds herself tasked with hiding an impossible secret

Target audience

adult

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