Reading with Simone Meier - The Inflamed

Jo and Gina: Two Women, Two Epochs – an intoxicating novel about love and art. France and Holland around 1900. The young Jo van Gogh-Bonger loses her beloved husband Theo to syphilis. Shortly before, Theo's brother Vincent van Gogh shot himself. Jo is left with nothing but a baby and hundreds of paintings by the still unknown painter. She decides to make Vincent world famous, setting a gigantic success story in motion. More than a hundred years later, art historian Gina comes across Jo's story. And Jo takes her into a world full of people who are obsessed: with love, art and visions.


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