The Detour
New York : Soho Press, [2012]
Format: Book
Description: 307 pages ; 22 cm
Ernst Vogler, a 26 year old German working for the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, is sent on a mission to Rome to collect The Discus Thrower, a classical Roman statue. On his return, the two Italian brothers accompanying him take a dangerous detour and Vogler realises he will be lucky to escape with his life. Despite his misgivings, he gives himself over to the Italian adventure discovering love, loss and a chance for redemption. Set along the beautiful back-roads of Northern Italy on the eve of WWII, The Detour is a bittersweet novel about misplaced idealism and second chances.
Subjects:
Germans -- Italy -- Fiction.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Italy -- History -- 1922-1945 -- Fiction.
Germans -- Italy -- Fiction.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Italy -- History -- 1922-1945 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616950491
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