
The Orpheus Clock
The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
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Derek Perkins
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Simon Goodman
Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. His father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But, when he passed away and Simon received his father's old papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a magnificent, world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, Guardi, and many, many others. But the Nazi regime snatched from them everything they had worked to build: their remarkable art, their immense wealth, their prominent social standing, and their very lives. With the help of his family, Simon initiated the first Nazi looting case to be settled in the United States.
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Well written, engaging, relevant, it illuminates the contemporary reverberations of Nazism, and how together with a cast of professions e.g. curators, governments, philanthropists, have helped and often hindered the reclamation process. Very enlightening.
Detailed and engaging
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Heartwrenchingly Triumphant
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An history of three centuries of a family heirloom truncated by the fateful events of the first half of XX century how it links the generation to fulfill a void, beautiful related and powerful engaging, I love it !
Undoubtedly winding whereabouts of art
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The exquisite prose of Simon Goodman's painstakingly detailed narrative of his personal and historic journey to uncover one of the greatest scandals of the twentieth and twenty-first century is always thorough, dramatic, colourful and rich and never dull. It resonates with the warmth of the characters, the luxury and grandiosity of the wealth and art works of its subjects. As the events unfold, Goodman bears witness to the unparalleled brutality, systemic corruption and criminality that continued not only unpunished but most profitably, for the perpetrators, at the highest levels of the art world, in the justice systems and the halls of government, commerce and high finance, decades after the Holocaust and the end of the second world war. This is a book that should be required reading in every advanced history and art history class in Europe and the Americas.
I very much enjoyed Derek Perkins’s recording of The Orpheus Clock. Obviously, the reading and interpretation were immaculate. But I am also especially grateful for his pronunciation of Dutch, French, German, Italian and other non-English names, words and expressions, which was consistently precise and, as far as I know, correct. This is a refreshing change from the majority of English and American recordings. It is very distracting to hear such recordings routinely screw up anything that is not commonplace in the English language. It would have ruined any recording of The Orpheus Clock, in particular, because so much of the book involves details of international travel and research. So, I commend Derek Perkins’s work, at the highest level.
A Masterpiece of 21st Century History
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Read it!
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More Than Just the Orpheus Clock
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