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The Gypsy Madonna

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. He makes a pilgrimage into the past, to that French village of his childhood, and there he uncovers the secret of the Gypsy Madonna.

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  • "zigeuner madonna"
  • "Gypsy Madonna"
  • "Gypsy Madonna"@pl

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  • "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. He makes a pilgrimage into the past, to that French village of his childhood, and there he uncovers the secret of the Gypsy Madonna."
  • "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. He makes a pilgrimage into the past, to that French village of his childhood, and there he uncovers the secret of the Gypsy Madonna."@en
  • "Als een vrouw op haar sterfbed haar zoon vertelt dat ze een kostbare Titiaan in haar bezit heeft, gaat hij terug naar het Franse dorp van zijn jeugd om het mysterie op te lossen."
  • "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."
  • "Elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies leaving the Metropolitan museum a priceless, uncatalogued painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, was completely unaware of its existence. This mystery sends him on the trail of his own history, back to the French village of his childhood."@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."

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "The Gypsy Madonna"
  • "The Gypsy Madonna"@en
  • "Cygańska Madonna"
  • "Cygańska Madonna"@pl
  • "Das Liebesrätsel : Roman"
  • "La Virgen gitana"
  • "The gypsy madonna"
  • "The gypsy madonna"@en
  • "The gypsy Madonna"
  • "The gypsy Madonna"@en
  • "A virgem cigana"
  • "De zigeunermadonna"
  • "zigeunermadonna"
  • "La Virgen Gitana"
  • "Gypsy madonna"
  • "The gypsy Madonna, Santa Montefiore"
  • "The Gipsy Madonna"
  • "Das Liebesrätsel Roman"
  • "La virgen gitana"
  • "La virgen gitana"@es

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