Zoia's Gold by Philip Sington - book review They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but I’m afraid it was the cover of Zoia’s Gold that attracted me to it. The woman’s face reminded me a little of an Italian Renaissance Madonna with the soft shadows reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius. Reading the blurb on the back cover [ ]. Hello, Sign in. Account Lists Returns Orders. CartReviews: 1. · Sington, who’s written six thrillers under the name Patrick Lynch (Figure of Eight, , etc.), explores the shadowy life of a Russian painter for this (slightly) more literary bltadwin.ru story of Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky—aka Madame Zoia—provides tremendous fodder for a novel: Born in Russia in to an aristocratic family, she was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks during the revolution.
Philip Sington's first novel is a cross between a thriller and a historical novel. When Madame Zoia, a famous painter renowned for her paintings on gold, dies in her nineties, Russian art expert and disgraced dealer Marcus Elliott is given the chance to write the catalogue for the sale of her works. In this gorgeously written novel of suspense, which shifts between contemporary Sweden, czarist Russia and s Paris, Sington uses the life of actual Russian-born painter Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky () as a puzzle—and fractured mirror—for the fictional Marcus Elliot, a British art dealer living in Sweden whose career is scuttled by. In Zoia's Gold, Philip Sington seamlessly merges past and present, fact and fiction into a bewitching, compulsively readable novel of obsession, betrayal, and redemption. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY .
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