a long pursuit of lost paintings of Giorgione, one of the most seminal, intriguing and mysterious figures in European painting. He involves in his research his students, family and friends, travelling to Switzerland, England, the Czech Republic, Italy, Greece and finally to Dublin.While the search reveals fakes, copies and probabilities, we learn about the real lives of the inquirers: their aspirations, their fortunes and misfortunes, their conflicts, their religious clashes and their views on existence. And as the story unfolds, relationships develop, flourish, change and decline. This is a confident, assured European novel from an award-winning author.