Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding

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Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding

It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin's world stayed the same size, Safta's expanded to embrace languages, society, and a fleeting love one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same.

Georgina Harding's kaleidoscopic new novel will appeal to readers of Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, and Sandor Marai. It is as intense and submerging as rain, as steeped in the horrors of our recent history as it is in the intimate passions of the human heart.
Georgina Harding is the author of the novels The Spy Game and The Solitude of Thomas Cave. She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex.
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ISBN 13 9781608197705
ISBN 10 1608197700
Title Painter of Silence
Author Georgina Harding
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury USA
Year published 2012-09-18
Number of pages 320
Prizes Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2012
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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