The Gypsy Madonna

By Santa Montefiore

Book Overview

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina

When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna. Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna -- and himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743278895
• ISBN13: 9780743278898
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Could not put this book down!!!

I stumbled upon this book while searching for a novel to help me through a small infection. It was a WONDERFUL find. The prose is beautiful, and although I normally detest both coming of age stories and first-person narratives, I was captivated from the first page and was not able to stop reading --- except to take care of essentials like meals --- until the very last page. The experience reminds me of my favorite reading experiences, and the book reminds me, with its exquisite sense of place, of THE ENGLISH PATIENT. This author is AMAZING, and this book is the best I have read for ages. Thank you S & S for bringing this author to American audiences! I am appalled by the PW review. The reveiwer must be either too burned out or too immature to recognize good fiction. This skilled novelist creates such psychological and emotional tension in this story that it intriques as well as any page-turning thriller. BRAVA, Santa Monetfiore! I can't wait to read your other books!