A Month in Siena av Hisham Matar

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<p><b>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR</b><br><br><b>''Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss'' </b><i>Guardia</i><i>n</i><br><br><b>''Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings''</b> Zadie Smith, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, Books of the Year<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>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.<br><br>A quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. <i>A Month in Siena</i> 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 b