Name: A Month in Siena
SKU: 53517495
Price: 282.00 ZAR
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Author: Hisham Matar
ISBN: 9780241987056

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hisham Matar

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780241987056

A Month in Siena

Hisham Matar (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Month in Siena "

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year_______________________________________________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.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. _______________________________________________'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief' Financial Times'I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book' New Statesman, Books of the Year'Bewitching, intensely moving' The Economist, Books of the Year

Hisham Matar

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Hisham Matar was born in New York in 1970, to Libyan parents, grew up in Tripoli and Cairo, and has spent most of his adult life in England. His debut, In the Country of Men (Salamandra, 2007), was translated into about thirty languages and won six major international literary awards. A success he repeated with his second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance (Salamandra, 2011). His third book, the autobiographical narrative The Return (Salamandra, 2017), won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Folio Prize. His latest work is A Month in Siena (Salamandra, 2022). A professor at Barnard College, Matar is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Art.

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