Restoration: A Novel

“ is an elegantly constructed work of fiction, seamlessly moving between the past and the present.”—Ron Rash, bestselling author of Acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson brings us , a sweeping story of love tested by human frailty and the terrors and tragedies of war.  Departing from the landscapes of his native Iceland—so beautifully evoked in , , and other previous works—Olafson sets Restoration in the gorgeous Italian hills of Tuscany during the World War Two years of the early 1940s. He captivates readers with a deeply emotional story in the vein of by Michael Ondaajte, Ian McEwan’s , and other contemporary literary classics, spinning a tale of passion, art, war, and betrayal centered around a pair of love triangles and a forged Caravaggio.