Leonard Beuger Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Een vrouw vertelt hoe het was om als joods meisje op te groeien in de jaren tachtig en negentig in het midwesten van Amerika.

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. Parzival, an Arthurian romance completed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first years of the 13th century, is one of the foremost works of German literature & a classic that can stand with the great masterpieces of the world. The most important aspects of human existence, worldly & spiritual, are presented in strikingly modern terms against the panorama of battles & tournaments & Parzival's long search for the Grail. The world of knighthood, of love & loyalty & human endeavor despite the cruelty & suffering of life, is constantly mingling with the world of the Grail, affirming the inherent unity between our temporal condition & the quest for something beyond human existence.

English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide publicity, a new chain of events is set into action. First vandalism, then murder, surround the painting. And as new facts about its true nature emerge, Bottando sends Flavia and Jonathan to investigate--little knowing that the pair will be on the run for the truth... and for their very lives.