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2) The painting
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room....
3) Cambridge
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Winnie and Wolf is the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years between the two world wars, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth.
Winifred, an English girl, was brought up in an orphanage and married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany's most controversial genius. She is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, and a Teutonic...
Author
Publisher
Chameleon Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Once the "Girl with a watering can" steps out of the painting, which is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hercuriosity leads her to visit other paintings in the museum, where her mischievous behavior causes more trouble than ever expected.
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