A Month In Siena - Hardcover

Matar, Hisham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241409500 ISBN 13: 9780241409503

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2019

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Críticas

A treasure for the ages (Peter Carey)

It is likely to become a classic (Colm Tóibín)

Truly remarkable (Daily Telegraph)

Hisham Matar is a brilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pace a striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material (Wall Street Journal)

Extraordinary (Financial Times)

Exquisite (Observer)

Reseña del editor

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR

'Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak' Hilary Mantel on The Return
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When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the first time. In the year in which Matar's life was shattered by the disappearance of his father the work of the great artists of Siena seemed to offer him a sense of hope. Over the years since then, Matar's feelings towards these paintings would deepen and, as he says, 'Siena began to occupy the sort of uneasy reverence the devout might feel towards Mecca or Rome or Jerusalem'.

A Month in Siena is the encounter, twenty-five years later, between the writer and the city he had worshipped from afar. It is a dazzling evocation of an extraordinary place and its effect on the writer's life. It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and the human condition.

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PRAISE FOR HISHAM MATAR

'Wise and agonizing and thrilling to read' Zadie Smith
'A moving, unfliching memoir' Kazuo Ishiguro
'A treasure for the ages' Peter Carey
'It is likely to become a classic' Colm Tóibín

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241409500
• ISBN 13: 9780241409503
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128