Literary fiction
Compression
Alfred Seiss is asked to trace a painting's ownership. The inquiry reaches beyond the frame and into people's lives.
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About the book
A disputed painting emerges in a country still arranging its public memory of war. Investigator Alfred Seiss is asked to establish a clean chain of ownership. Instead he finds a prisoner, a family claim, missing intervals, and documents whose precision cannot contain the lives surrounding them.
As Ben Cartwright and Kimberly Fromm enter the inquiry, provenance becomes a struggle over custody, guilt, and the authority to name what happened. Each new fact narrows the official account while widening the moral one.
Compression is a literary mystery about art, restitution, and the pressure placed on history when institutions require a single usable version of the past.
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Published by Studio Mamalys. Written in English.
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About the author
Kent Natal Moreau writes literary fiction about care, language, institutional power, and the distance between a human life and its official record.