# The Swan Thieves

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- Book: [The Swan Thieves](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-kostova/the-swan-thieves) ([The Swan Thieves.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-kostova/the-swan-thieves.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth Kostova](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-kostova)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-615-7
- Published: 2010-06-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.