num_pages: 565
description: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy from the late 19th century to the late 20th from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession history's losses and the power of art to preserve human hope.
language: English
title: The Swan Thieves
publisher: Sphere