Beschreibung
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardia n '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
| EAN: | 9780241987056 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 06.08.2020 |
| Beilage: | B-format paperback |
| Autoren: | Matar, Hisham |
| Themenüberschrift: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs |
| Keyword: | william boyd; when breath becomes air; zadie smith; ali smith; rachel cusk; deborah levy; h is for hawk; ocean vuong; rebecca solnit; the cut out girl; ways of seeing john berger; olivia laing; the return; the hare with amber eyes; the lonely city; orhan pamuk; jan morris; bettany hughes; modern art; the argonauts by maggie nelson; kindle daily deal; siri hustvedt; edmund de waal; on earth we are briefly gorgeous; philip hoare; bart van es; his for hawk by helen macdonald; the last summer; memories of the future; teju cole; madeleine bunting; memoir; siena |
| Fachschema: | Italien / Erinnerung, Brief, Tagebuch~Italien / Reisebeschreibung~Sechzehntes Jahrhundert~Renaissance - Frührenaissance~Kunstgeschichte~Reisebericht~Reisebericht - Reisebeschreibung~Reisetagebuch~Siena |
| Fachkategorie: | Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen~Reiseberichte, Reiseliteratur |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 12 mm |