The Lady in Gold by Anne-marie O'connor

Author:Anne-marie O'connor [O'Connor, Anne-Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Art, Jewish, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Contemporary (1945-), History, Individual Artist
ISBN: 9780307957566
Google: uiCGwHKLz48C
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-06T18:30:00+00:00

The Immendorf Castle

It was a warm, blustery day in the spring of 1943 when the youngest baron of Schloss Immendorf, Johannes von Freudenthal, looked out of one of the castle’s glorious towers and watched trucks pull into the courtyard.

At ten, Johannes, the inquisitive pet of the family, wasn’t much of a baron yet. He still played hide-and-seek with his four brothers and sisters in the nooks and crannies of the castle turrets, imagining himself a dragon-slaying knight in one of the family’s old suits of armor.

The eagle’s-nest view of the castle took in the mountains northwest of Vienna, the Danubian river valley wine country, and one of Austria’s oldest inhabited regions. By 1943, the Schloss Immendorf had long passed its days of feudal glory, though the little baron’s father and his young wife had restored the gracefully turreted marvel. Outside were war, scarcity, and other terrible things, but Schloss Immendorf remained the family refuge.

On this cloudy day, Johannes had wandered upstairs, looking for his favorite kitten, when he heard motors outside.

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