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Title: A Tale of Love and Artistry
Review: Woman in Bronze is the story of a young artist who flees his war-torn native Lithuania at the turn of the last century and makes his way from the streets of Paris into its salons, where he encounters dilettantes and artists alike. He is even treated to nights at the Folies Bergere, where he finds both fleeting and enduring love. The great achievement of the novel is that it is a spellbinding story which also manages to say something important abour our age, about lost love and high ambition and artistic rivalry, about the difference between striving for the greater good and striving for baser, more egotistical and ephemeral works. Like Sileika's previous work about immigrants, Buying on Time, this is a novel to treasure, a book that will outlive us all.
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