The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa: A Novel - Tapa blanda

Caparros, Martin

 
9780743297950: The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 0743297954 ISBN 13: 9780743297950
Editorial: Washington Square Press, 2011

Sinopsis

Now in paperback, The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa is a captivating fictionalization of the greatest art theft of the twentieth century.

On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an unthinkable crime: Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, disappeared from the walls of the Louvre. While artists such as Picasso and Apollinaire were suspected of the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia, was detained when trying to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiques dealer in Florence—but the mystery of the theft itself was never satisfactorily resolved.

Fifteen years later, someone calling himself “the Marquis de Valfierno” cannot tolerate dying without the world knowing of his audacious exploits. And so, he decides to confide his life story to an American journalist: from his impoverished émigré origins as the son of a servant woman in Buenos Aires to his rise as the most dangerous conman in the world. Through a series of remarkable but evolving masks of identity, beginning as a marginal criminal of Argentina’s lower depths and ending up a wealthy aristocrat of the Belle Époque, first in Buenos Aires, then in Paris, he slowly transforms himself into “Valfierno.” Only then is he prepared to undertake the unthinkable, his own “masterpiece” of the criminal arts.

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Acerca del autor

Martín Caparrós, prolific novelist, essayist, and travel writer, won the 2004 Planeta Prize in Argentina for Valfierno, which has been published in over a dozen languages. He has also worked as a journalist for print, radio, and television. He currently lives in his native Argentina.

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Editorial
Washington Square Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0743297954
ISBN 13 
9780743297950
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
352
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