By Molly Young Molly Young is on the staff of the Book Review and a contributing writer ... of gardens flattened by war, homes looted, art collections confiscated by the Gestapo.

asks a young man named Tobey midway through Brian Castleberry’s “The Californians,” an ambitious, widescreen novel about the ugliness that often ensues when art and commerce collide.

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