Synopsis
“A tremendous talent.”
—Boston Globe
“Restoration is an elegantly constructed work of fiction, seamlessly moving between the past and the present.”
—Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena
Acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson brings us Restoration, a sweeping story of love tested by human frailty and the terrors and tragedies of war. Departing from the landscapes of his native Iceland—so beautifully evoked in Absolution, The Journey Home, and other previous works—Olafson sets Restoration in the gorgeous Italian hills of Tuscany during the World War Two years of the early 1940s. He captivates readers with a deeply emotional story in the vein of The English Patient by Michael Ondaajte, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and other contemporary literary classics, spinning a tale of passion, art, war, and betrayal centered around a pair of love triangles and a forged Caravaggio.
About Olaf Olafsson
See more books from this Author“Restoration” is an ambitious historical novel... that motors along on a dark mystery...
Read Full Review of Restoration: A Novel | See more reviews from NY TimesOlafsson’s minimizing of the obvious debt he owes Origo is so disingenuous that it leaves me wondering whether “Restoration” might be a fantastic joke about authorship and authority, authenticity and authentication.
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