Restitution

Illuminating . . . -Lynn H. Nicholas worlds leading researcher on Art pilfered during WWII and author of The Rape Of Europa Sylvie Rosenberg was once the aristocratic daughter of a prominent Dutch art dealer until the Nazi invasion of Holland changed everything. Forced to part with his astonishing collection of masterpieces her father managed to trade a Rembrandt for the lives of twenty-five family members including Sylvie. Many years later in America Sylvie is on a path of self-destruction still equating love with all the things that were taken away from her. Pocketing small items at first eventually her hopelessness leads to a monumental betrayal dismantling the lives of her son Michael a writer and Vietnam vet still struggling with the consequences of war and his schoolteacher wife Angela as they struggle to fill their own void after failed attempts to conceive a child. Desperate to win back their love Sylvie returns to her homeland to face old ghosts and the Dutch judicial system seeking restitution of her familys masterpieces. But the battle proves far more difficult than she imagined . . .