Fiction. BURNT UMBER is a novel about two unforgettable artists--the German painter Franz Marc and the American sculptor Harry Baer--who struggle to express their personal vision of the defining moments of the 20th Century: the trenches of World War I, the liberation of the concentration camps, the turbulence of post-WWII Paris, the Civil Rights Movement, and Viet Nam-era Berkeley. "Green is a born storyteller"--the Los Angeles Times Book Review.