Description
Everyone is fascinated by theft: many have contemplated it, but few have built their lives on its risks and contradictions.
The hero of Acts of Theft a major novel centred on a spectacular theft of pre-Columbian treasure in modern Mexico - is an expatriate Austrian aristocrat, connoisseur of arts and mythologies, collector, traveller, mastermind of thieving stratagems and archaeological plunder. But he is also a sculptor of the first rank, once an assistant to the great Brancusi, from whom he learned his vision and his self-doubt.
Against this tormented hero is pitted a Mexican police inspector, no less committed to the treasury of his own past. Their confrontation, their recognition of mutual obsession and shared corruption, leads to the novel's stunning conclusion.
ISBN:0436103028
