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Artifacts / Natalie Lemle.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Lemle Artifacts
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lemle, Natalie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Italy--Fiction.
- Cultural property.
- World Heritage areas--Italy--Fiction.
- World Heritage areas.
- Historic preservation--Italy--Fiction.
- Historic preservation.
- Archaeology--Fiction.
- Archaeology.
- Antiquities--Fiction.
- Antiquities.
- Women archaeologists--Italy--Fiction.
- Women archaeologists.
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Lawyers--Fiction.
- Lawyers.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Turin (Italy)--Fiction.
- Turin (Italy).
- Conservation and restoration.
- History, Ancient.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026
- Summary:
- "Successful trusts and estates attorney Lena Connolly is asked by a colleague to assist on a case: the Italian government claims an artifact was looted and sold to a museum illegally and is seeking repatriation. The object in question is a cup made of dichroic glass, which would have been rare even in ancient Rome, let alone thousands of years later. Lena has done everything she can to put the study-abroad summer she spent on an archaeological dig in the Italian Alps behind her. Her dreams of being an archaeologist were shattered when her mentor, Cyrille, disappeared and her enigmatic boyfriend, Giamma, went dark, but with this new case, the past comes roaring back. Told in alternating timelines, Artifacts follows young Lena as she falls in love with both archaeology and Giamma on the streets of Torino while her adult self pieces together what truly happened on the dig, now a fully restored Roman villa with world heritage status. The dichroic cup, Lena discovers, may have been taken from the very site she helped unearth. Powerful and exuberant, Natalie Lemle's Artifacts brings readers behind the museum glass and asks questions about cultural heritage and the historical preservation of our shared sense of humanity."--Book jacket flap.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781668068342
- 1668068346
- OCLC:
- 1591253250
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000383041
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