To make the sale, Isa will need to learn the art istry of a master forger, before the children can be deported, and before she can be outed as a collaborator. One more forgery, a copy of an exquisite Vermeer, and the Nazis will pay for the rescue of the very children they are trying annihilate. Isa sells her beautiful forgery to none other than Hitler himself, and on the way to the auction, discovers that Truus is part of a resistance ring working to smuggle Jewish babies out of Amsterdam.īut Truus cannot save more children without money. She sells them a fake-a Rembrandt copy drawn by her talented father-a sale that sets Isa perilously close to the second most hated class of people in Amsterdam: the collaborators. So, when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country’s heritage, feeding the Third Reich’s ravenous appetite for culture and art.
The “degenerate” art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, and her best friend, Truus, flees to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. “Cameron once again fashions an elaborate dystopian narrative that fairly prickles with suspense…Masterful characterizations, world-building, and pacing make for irresistible reading…For all of its fantastical elements… is ultimately a story about two teenagers, Samara and Beckett, finding their places in the world, managing familial and societal expectations, and falling in love…Cameron is a writer of prime caliber.Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents’ small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city’s palette. When planets collide and memories clash, can Samara and Beckett save two worlds, and remember love in a place that has forgotten it?Īt once thought-provoking and utterly thrilling, this extraordinary companion novel to Sharon Cameron’s The Forgetting explores the truth and loss that lie within memory and the bonds that hold us together. Beckett finds Samara in the ruins of the lost city, and uncovers so much more than he ever bargained for - a challenge to all he’s ever believed in or sworn to. So she flees, to Canaan, the lost city of her ancestors, to Forget.īeckett has flown through the stars to find a dream: Canaan, the most infamous social experiment of Earth’s antiquity. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should have never known and creates a memory so terrible she cannot live with it. Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget.
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