Stolen Beauty : A Novel (Paperback)

from wagner.sarah35

An excellent story about art and World War II, told from the perspective of two Viennese women living in the early 20th century. Gustav Klimt (famous for The Kiss) looms large in this novel and the tale of his portrait of Adele Boch-Bauer is the foundation of Stolen Beauty's plot. Fascinating rea...

from Beamis12

On the wall directly across the foot of my bed, I have hanging a large framed print of Klimt's, The Kiss. I love it, see something new in it all the time. Love his work, so naturally I was drawn to this book about Vienna in 1903, featuring Klimt and Adele Block-Bauer. I had also started another b...

from SilversReviews

Love, war, and art. STOLEN BEAUTY moves from 1900 to 1938 as we follow the lives of Adele and Maria. In 1900, Adele's story was about her life and how she became fascinated with the painter Gustav Klimt and that era of art. In 1938, the story is told of Maria, Adele's niece, newly married and tak...

from ShannonRose4

Albanese detailed prose transports you between the 1900 Vienna art world where everything is beautiful, dazzling and forty years later when Maria (Adele's niece) and her family are forced from their Austrian home by the Nazis. One of the best and will researched historical fiction reads I've read...

from ShannonRose4

Albanese detailed prose transports you between the 1900 Vienna art world where everything is beautiful, dazzling and forty years later when Maria (Adele's niece) and her family are forced from their Austrian home by the Nazis. One of the best and will researched historical fiction reads I've read...