Restoration

"A tremendous talent."


-
Boston Globe

"
Restoration is an elegantly constructed work of fiction, seamlessly moving between the past and the present."


-Ron Rash, bestselling author of
Serena

Acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson brings us
Restoration, a sweeping story of love tested by human frailty and the terrors and tragedies of war. Departing from the landscapes of his native Iceland-so beautifully evoked in
Absolution,
The Journey Home, and other previous works-Olafson sets Restoration in the gorgeous Italian hills of Tuscany during the World War Two years of the early 1940s. He captivates readers with a deeply emotional story in the vein of
The English Patient by Michael Ondaajte, Ian McEwan's
Atonement, and other contemporary literary classics, spinning a tale of passion, art, war, and betrayal centered around a pair of love triangles and a forged Caravaggio.