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Author : Stefan Hertmans
Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 304
A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martienâ"artist, soldier, survivor of World War Iâ"lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfatherâs story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbainâs memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his fatherâs work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. 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 one manâs life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)
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