The Last Masterpiece: A Novel of World War II Italy - Laura Morelli
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction
In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two womena German photographer and an American stenographerhunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections., In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery., When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the worlds greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands., But as Italy turns from ally to enemy and Hitlers plan to destroy irreplaceable monuments and works of art becomes frighteningly clear, each womans race against the clockand against one anothermight demand more than they were prepared to give., The Last Masterpiece takes readers on a heart-pumping adventure up the Italian peninsula, where nothing is as i
