Mark Sarvas' new 'Memento Park,' about looted art, was 'the book I was waiting to write'
LOS ANGELES - In author Mark Sarvas' Santa Monica apartment, beside a wall of meticulously organized books, hangs a print of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's German Expressionist painting "Berlin Street Scene," which served as the inspiration for the fictional work of art at the heart of his second novel, "Memento Park."
The story of a second-generation Hungarian American's attempt to reclaim that valuable painting, which may have been looted from his father's family in Budapest during the Second World War, "Memento Park," says Sarvas, has been a long time coming.
