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Cooking For Picasso
Cooking for Picasso
Subtitle:
A Novel
Book Category:
Fiction > Historical
Author:
Aubray, Camille
Editor::
Porter, Susanna
ISBN 13:
9780399177651
Price:
USD $27.00
Publication Year:
2016

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Penguin Random House.

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In the spring of 1936, Pablo Picasso, already a well-known artist, retreated to a small town on the French Riviera to escape his turbulent love life that was interfering with his work. Inspired by this intriguing episode, and by the paintings of an unknown young woman that date from this period, Aubray uses it as a springboard for this novel about Ondine, a young chef whose life is transformed by the artist's visit to her village.

Running parallel to the story of Picasso and Ondine is the contemporary tale of her American grand-daughter, Celine, who ventures to the south of France on a quest to discover the truth behind Ondine's relationship with Picasso, and the family secrets that have been kept hidden since that day. Love stories in both the past and present are set against the sensual backdrop of the Cote d'Azur in this tale about the power of art, love, war and family.