Book 2008
Forgery
4.01 1 readers shelved it
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Art
- Fiction
- Americans
- Collectors and collecting
- History
- Fiction, historical
- Greece, fiction
- Marriage, fiction
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?