Автор:Susan Vreeland Год: 2015 Издание:Random House Страниц: 448 ISBN: 9780812980196 In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for Andre’s grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris. But as she soon discovers, the hilltop town is rich with unexpected pleasures. Pascal once worked in the nearby ochre mines and later became a pigment salesman and frame maker; while selling his pigments in Paris, he befriended Pissarro and Cezanne, some of whose paintings he received in trade for his frames. Pascal begins to tutor Lisette in both art and life, allowing her to see his small collection of paintings and the Provencal landscape itself in a new light. Inspired by Pascal’s advice to "Do the important things first," Lisette begins a list of vows to herself. When war breaks out, Andre goes off to the front, but not before hiding Pascal’s paintings to keep them from the Nazis’ reach. With German forces...
