Acts of Theft

A gripping, world-spanning drama of crime, art, and our shared cultural heritage

This unforgettable novel tells the story of an Austrian nobleman who as a young man at the end of World War I, finds himself irresistibly drawn to thievery. Forty years later, living in Mexico, he has made stealing his trade, pillaging Mayan tombs to illicitly secure pre-Columbian art, which he sells on the black market. At the same time, he creates his own sculptures, which the market refuses to reward. Eventually, his activities catch the eye of a dedicated, solitary Mexican police detective, and a reckoning--one that has its roots in the long history of European plunder of the riches of the New World--is set in violent motion.

Praised on publication by Cynthia Ozick, the Washington Post, and more, this unforgettable novel harks back to the great nineteenth-century social novels while still being fully of its late-twentieth-century time.

Info autore

Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986), novelist, essayist, and theologian, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1973 for In the Days of Simon Stern and the National Jewish Book Award in 1984. His A People Apart was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. Cohen's novels Acts of Theft and In the Days of Simon Stern are also available in Phoenix Fiction paperback editions from the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Arthur A. Cohen
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.01.1988
• EAN: 9780226112503
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11250-3
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 20 mm x 25 mm x 2 mm
• Peso: 340 g
• Serie: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary