Author Description

On the grand chessboard of Picasso's love affairs, Dora Maar is the one he may have loved the most. Very quickly, however, he could not bear to be a prisoner of Adoree Dora. The creation of Guernica gave him the means to escape the spell. Conceived under Dora's eyes in memory of all the massacres perpetrated in the world, the canvas also became the place of the killing of their passion. Alain Vircondelet traces in this burning novel a story of desire and hold that will find fulfillment only in what Picasso called "the torn body of love"--Goodreads