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ashleysilver7 's review for:
Stolen Beauty
by Laurie Lico Albanese
Great book! One of the best I've ever read, and I've read a lot of books. It's a book that begins in Austria, and focuses on the lives of several people who are all connected to a renowned painting by Gustav Klimt. This painting is the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, or formerly known as "The Lady in Gold" by the Austrian government. The author beautifully researched the art of the time, and did an amazing job of wrapping the story of Austria's Nazi occupation in 1938, and how Adele may have lived at the turn of the century, including her interactions with artists and elite free thinkers in Austria around the turn of the century. The plot is the same as the movie from 2015 starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. If you love historical fiction, art, and great novels, you will love this book.