num_pages: 256
description: The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore’s Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William’s art collection. Rupert’s first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a city of replicas and composites that, like a hall of mirrors, calls to question what is real and what is false. Journeying to the secluded island of Aspros, among a circle of artists and aristocrats each with their own secrets, Rupert finds the very pieces he’s searching for, but can he escape the tragedy that ended his brief marriage? As beautiful as Rupert’s discoveries are, beneath the surface lurk rumors of insurrection, fabrication, and even murder. Seductive, compelling, and sly, Forgery is a sophisticated book about the value and meaning of art, love and the corrosive power of grief.
language: English
title: Forgery
titlecomplete: Forgery
characters: Rupert Brigg, Kostas Nikolaides, Nathan Hoffman, Hester Grolsz, Steve Kelly, Thanasi, Jack Weldon, Elena Nikolaides, Nikos Nikolaides, Kiplinger Sand, Olivia Macintyre, Veronica Wetzel, Henri Michaud, Amanda Weldon, Timon Custard, Neftali
genres: Fiction, Art, Greece, Mystery
ratings_count: 75
places: Vermont, Greece
publisher: Grove Press