The Rules of Perspective: A Novel

On April 3 1945 the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museums vaults Heinrich Hoffer is hiding from the bombardment and trying to keep a priceless Van Gogh from falling into the hands of a rogue Nazi. After the shelling an American corporal Neal Parry finds a beautiful eighteenth-century oil painting in the rubble and must confront both its beauty and the morality of stealing it. The stories of Herr Hoffer Parry and their paintings unfold simultaneously in this gripping brilliantly structured novel about art and war.