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LocationOakland
Call NoF MUL
TitleThe Lost Woman / Karen Mulvahill
AuthorMulvahill, Karen
Barcode47660111116535
CollectionFiction
SummaryWhen the Nazis storm into Paris in 1940, Nicole Cassin is a carefree student living above her parents’ art gallery. They seize the gallery and imprison her parents, but Nicole escapes and joins the Resistance. Years later, and living in New York, an unexpected letter brings the past crashing back. She hires an art historian to try and find the paintings the Germans stole, especially a portrait of her mother by Henri Matisse, and in doing so has to confront memories long buried—including the one she fears most.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781915023582 18.95
Personal Name Mulvahill, Karen
Title Statement The Lost Woman / Karen Mulvahill
Imprint New York, NY Envelope Books 2025
Physical Description 292 p. softcover 21 cm.
General Note Ingram classified this title as Art (nonfiction), however her website refers to it as her fiction debut.
Summary, Etc. When the Nazis storm into Paris in 1940, Nicole Cassin is a carefree student living above her parents’ art gallery. They seize the gallery and imprison her parents, but Nicole escapes and joins the Resistance. Years later, and living in New York, an unexpected letter brings the past crashing back. She hires an art historian to try and find the paintings the Germans stole, especially a portrait of her mother by Henri Matisse, and in doing so has to confront memories long buried—including the one she fears most.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term European art, history Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Art History, 20th & 21st Century Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term History, Wars & conflict Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Wars & conflict, history Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War (1939-1945) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term French Art Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term European art recovery, post World War II Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Art, missing Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical fiction Fiction