At a hotel in Buenos Aires, a woman checks in under a pseudonym. She wears a black fur shawl and has no luggage. She is alone.Over the coming days and nights, she tells a story, which begins with a secret shared in a local bath house, revealing art forgery and fraud on a dazzling scale. At its heart is an enigmatic genius who for years forged portraits of the city’s elite, before disappearing without trace. It is a story of influence and intrigue, in which nothing is as it seems. We’re not to expect ‘names, numbers or dates’, she cautions, but a more subtle kind of reckoning. Told in a mordant, irresistible voice and full of sharp surprises, ‘Portrait of an Unknown Lady’ is a captivating enquiry into what we mean by ‘authenticity’, in life as in art.

Author Mar�a Gainza Published by Harvill Secker ISBN 9781787303249 EAN 9781787303249 Bic Code Cover Paperback