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Stefan Hertmans War and Turpentine (Paperback) (UK IMPORT). Author: Stefan Hertmans. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron foundry an inferno. Further DetailsTitle: War and Turpentine Condition: New Author: Stefan Hertmans Translator: David McKay Contributor: David McKay (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0099598043 EAN: 9780099598046 ISBN: 9780099598046 Publisher: Vintage Genre: Fiction Topic: Historical Fiction Release Date: 05/04/2017 Description: WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times , Sunday Times and The Economist , and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron foundry an inferno.During the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic. Urbain mourns her bitterly for the rest of his life but, like the obedient soldier he is, he marries her sister at her parents' bidding. The rest is not quite silence, but a marriage with a sad secret at its heart, and the consolations found in art and painting. War and Turpentine is the imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war. Language: English Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 213g Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
