{"id":49033,"date":"2022-02-18T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49033"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:09:54","slug":"portrait-of-an-unknown-lady-by-maria-gainza-translated-by-thomas-bunstead-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/portrait-of-an-unknown-lady-by-maria-gainza-translated-by-thomas-bunstead-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Mar\u00eda Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49034\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Portrait-of-an-Unknown-Lady-Maria-Gainza-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Portrait-of-an-Unknown-Lady-Maria-Gainza-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Portrait-of-an-Unknown-Lady-Maria-Gainza-BookDragon.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/>The mutable, esoteric art world is again the setting for award-winning Argentinian Mar\u00eda Gainza\u2019s latest, deftly translated by British writer-editor Thomas Bunstead, who also English-enabled her award-winning <em>Optic Nerve<\/em> (2019). Gainza\u2019s narrator warns early on, \u201cAny person reading this ought not to expect names, numbers, or dates.\u201d She reveals herself as a former art critic surrounded by unreliable alliances, fake canvases, and other people\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n<p>Hers is one of four threads here, with the others featuring the late Enriqueta Macedo, who \u201cwas the country\u2019s preeminent expert in art authentication\u201d; Mariette Lydis, an Austrian noble-by-marriage who emigrated to Buenos Aires and became a sought-after portraitist \u201cof the great and good of the city\u201d; and Ren\u00e9e, a forger with \u201cthe disconcerting ability to enter the soul of another,\u201d who was once among the Hotel Melancholical Forgers, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the four-prongs \u2013 critic, authenticator, painter, forger \u2013 intermittently intersect and overlap, but Gainza doesn\u2019t even hint at easy answers or exacting closure by the novel\u2019s end. That titular \u201cunknown\u201d-ness \u2013 times four \u2013 might prove disappointing to some, but shrewd audiences will surely enjoy the engrossing challenge of an unpredictable pursuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Portrait-of-an-Unknown-Lady-\/pid=9754588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, February 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018 (Spain), 2022 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mutable, esoteric art world is again the setting for award-winning Argentinian Mar\u00eda Gainza\u2019s latest, deftly translated by British writer-editor Thomas Bunstead, who also English-enabled her award-winning Optic Nerve (2019). 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