La Femme dans le Miroir

editions Robert Laffont
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Little does Adrian know that by walking into an art gallery he would be caught up in a story initiated long ago by a Dutch painter. A haunting face reflected in the mirror of a vanitas drawn three centuries earlier gazes back at him from a modern-day painting, stirring in him hopes of bringing back his own dead wife. For doesn’t the woman in the mirror seem to have sailed across the ages, unscathed by time and coveted by generations of artists? With the help of a mad historian and an embalmer savant, he attempts to discover the secret behind the paintings, delving into the realm of pigments and powders, where the shadows of ancient alchemists still loom.

On the brink of solving the enigma, he suddenly realises that nothing in this adventure is due to chance, and that the stakes of the whole matter go well beyond the artistic rendering of youth and beauty.