Cover of Hisham Matar: A Month in Siena

Hisham Matar A Month in Siena

Price for Eshop: 374 Kč (€ 15.0)

VAT 0% included

New

English

In stock, ships in 24 hours


Berlín-Friedrichshain, dodací doba +7 dní

Book information

Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2020

Paperback

128

Standard

317671

978-0-241-98705-6

0-241-98705-9

Travel writing

Annotation

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.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.

Write new comment