Schellenberg’s Ring
Schellenberg’s Ring
Daniel BirnbaumFollowing the success of Dr. B, Daniel Birnbaum is back with a novella centered around the Venice Biennale 1942.
“Prince Eugene was there. And my friend, Grünewald, despite being Jewish. Still, it’s as if the exhibition never happened.”
The year is 1942. War is raging, and yet Sweden is supposed to be a part of the increasingly ethically compromised Venice Biennale. An idealistic and visionary art critic is given the task to ship the Swedish contributions to the scandalous exhibition.
By pure chance he runs into the mysterious SS officer Walter Schellenberg, who has surprising connections to Sweden. Suddenly, doors are being opened into secluded societies that normally shy the light, as well as the secrets of history.
Daniel Birnbaum is back in fine form, with a thrilling novella set in a world normally obscured to outsiders, in which he himself as the head of the 2009 Venice Biennale has unique knowledge. Schellenberg’s Ring is a razor sharp novella about art, power and secrets, in which reality and fantasy meet in a sublime collision.
His debut, Dr. B, a novel about his grand-father Immanuel Birnbaum was published in 2018 to great acclaim, and was translated into 8 languages.
Praise for previous title:
‘If you’re looking for a ridiculously brilliant story, you can stop looking…He’s got the world’s best story—he’s got DR B.’
Svenska Dagbladet
‘Daniel Birnbaum is the grandmaster of the art world, an über-intellectual, yet fairly grounded wonderboy. DR B is an astonishing thriller-novel…reminiscent of both Hjalmar Söderberg’s Doctor Glass as well as the dreamy melancholy in The Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald.’
Aftonbladet
