"1939 - 1945" . . "Bordeaux (France)" . . "Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)" . . "France" . . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "Historical fiction"@en . "Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of all the French villagers. And his surrogate father vanishes too, with no word of explanation. Mischa bears these scars into manhood. Only when his mother dies, revealing the existence of a priceless masterpiece, does he go on the trail of his own history?"@en . . . . . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . . . "The Gypsy Madonna" . "The Gypsy Madonna"@en . . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Talking books"@en . "\"Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of all the French villagers, the two of them against the world. And his surrogate father vanishes too, with no word of explanation. Mischa bears these scars into manhood. Only when his mother dies, revealing the existence of a priceless masterpiece, does he go on the trail of his own history.\"--Container."@en . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . "The gypsy Madonna" . . "The gypsy Madonna"@en . "Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of all the French villagers, the two of them against the world. And his surrogate father vanishes too, with no word of explanation. Mischa bears these scars into manhood. Only when his mother dies, revealing the existence of a priceless masterpiece, does he go on the trail of his own history."@en . . . . . . . .