EAN: 9780778387756

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"A sparkling travelogue and a poignant journey of self-discovery all in one. . . . Alka Joshi is simply the best!" — Kate Quinn New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code From the  New York Times  bestselling author of The Henna Artist this sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague Florence Paris and London to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter' s death. When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage she' s expected to make a quick recovery and her nurse Sona is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona yearning for a larger life finds herself carried away by Mira' s stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira dies quite suddenly and mysteriously Sona falls under suspicion and her quiet life is upended.    The key to proving Sona' s innocence may lie in a cryptic note and four paintings Mira left in her care sending the young woman on a mission to visit the painter' s former friends and lovers across a tumultuous Europe teetering toward war. On the precipice of discovering her own identity Sona learns that the painter' s charming facade hid a far more complicated troubled soul.    In her first stand-alone novel since her bestselling debut   The Henna Artist  Alka Joshi uses the life of painter Amrita Sher-Gil the "Frida Kahlo of India " as inspiration for the story' s beginning to explore how far we' ll travel to determine where we truly belong. Discover more novels from Alka Joshi: THE HENNA ARTIST THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR THE PERFUMIST OF PARIS

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