LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR - AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A Washington Post NOTABLE BOOK - A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick 'Nothing short of brilliant.' --The Wall Street Journal From 'a surpassingly gifted storyteller' (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to return to his homeland to create propaganda films for the German Reich. An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he