Podvrh – Katz Erica (2023)

Emma Caan's life is a forgery. Emma is a forger, an artist who specializes in paintings from the nineteenth century. However, she is not a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums or wealthy collectors who want to protect their investments. Emma is more than adept at the brush strokes of Gauguin and van Gogh, but her work is sometimes a painful reminder of the artistic goals she wished to achieve years ago – before her family and her entire life fell apart. When a Russian art collector, Leonard Sobjecky, unexpectedly appears in her life, Emma sees a way out – a new job, a new direction her life could take, and access to money that would help support her unstable and recently widowed mother. But nothing comes for free… and Emma is not prepared for what is to come. Leonard's opulent style engulfs her, and over time she discovers what lies behind all that glitter. At that moment, her past, which she has been desperately trying to bury, collides with the present and forces Emma to consider whether her carefully presented life is just as much a forgery as all her copies...