Description
In 1960s Buenos Aires, an auction-house employee is drawn into the orbit of an enigmatic mentor and the shadowy craft of art forgery, where “authenticity” is less a fact than a performance. As she helps authenticate works from a secretive circle tied to the city’s haunting Recoleta cemetery, her pursuit of truth blurs into obsession—raising unsettling questions about authorship, value, and the stories we accept as real. Told through impressionistic vignettes and a quietly seductive, philosophical lens, this novel explores the gap between what is lived and what is told, and how art can both reveal and conceal. Maria Gainza’s distinctive, art-critical style—translated by Thomas Bunstead—turns a high-society con into a meditation on belief, desire, and the meanings we attach to images.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2023
224 pages
ISBN: 9781529115536
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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