Dina Rubina. The White Dove of Cordoba

Truly, no man on earth can say who he is. A genius of forgery, in love with painting. A forger with the soul of a true artist. A noble adventurer, a kind of artistic Robin Hood, a brilliant intellectual, and a charming con man—this is the compelling protagonist of the novel "The White Dove of Cordoba," a new and compelling literary creation. The tragic and adventurous fate of Zakhar Kordovin shapes the plot of his life like a gripping thriller. Events follow one after another, literally leaving neither the hero nor the reader breathless. Vinnitsa and St. Petersburg, Jerusalem and Rome, Toledo, Cordoba, and the Vatican are depicted by the author with mesmerizing precision and a truly resonant beauty.