War and Turpentine
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War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award The story of Urbain Martien lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather's story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain's memory.But who is he, really? There is Urbain the child of a lowly church painter; Urbain the young man, who narrowly escapes death in an iron foundry; Urbain the soldier; and Urbain the man, married to his true love's sister, haunted by the war and his interrupted dreams of life as an artist. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of a man, revealing how a single life can echo through the ages.
Hertmans, Stefan: - Stefan Hertmans is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent. He has published novels, anthologies of short stories, essays on literature and philosophy, theater texts and poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781101872116 |
| ISBN 10 | 110187211X |
| Titel | War and Turpentine |
| Autor | Stefan Hertmans |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Random House USA Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2017-07-25 |
| Seitenanzahl | 304 |
| Preise | Long-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2017 |
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