A Month in Siena

Beschreibung

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR<BR><BR>'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian<BR><BR>'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year<BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR>Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped.

In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School. They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside the urgencies of the present.<BR><BR>A quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. A Month in Siena is the encounter between the writer and the city.

It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of love, grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. <BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR>'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief' Financial Times<BR><BR>'I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book' New Statesman, Books of the Year<BR><BR>'Bewitching, intensely moving' The Economist, Books of the Year

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