A review by cloudss
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

excells at reimagining vienna before the war and how the elite lived there w salons and art etc. could have more substance around art restitution case etc. Story of family and their world pre war, during nazi regime, and each if their escapes to exile (or deaths) well done. Discusses history and austrias poor reckoning with it well & in an interesting way, saving much for the final chapters (ie everyone has a perpetrator or a victim in their family - often both). wild to hear from other side ‘not all black and white’ from family with nazi history. Seems unfinished in the end - as the families story still goes on