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From the Pulitzer Prize–profitable writer of The Return comes a profoundly transferring contemplation of the connection among artwork and existence.
 
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After completing his tough memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, in quest of solace and enjoyment, traveled to Siena, Italy. At all times discovering convenience and readability in nice artwork, Matar immersed himself in 8 vital works from the Sienese College of portray, which flourished from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Artists he had famous right through his existence, together with Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke in advance engagements he’d had with works via Caravaggio and Poussin, and the non-public studies that surrounded the ones moments.

Including stunning complete-colour reproductions of the {artistic endeavors|works of artworks}, A Month in Siena is set what took place among Matar, the ones {artwork work|paintings}, and town. That month could be an peculiar length within the author’s existence: an exploration of ways artwork can console and disturb in equivalent degree, in addition to an intimate come across with a town and its population. It is a beautiful meditation on how centuries-antique artwork can remove darkness from our personal interior panorama—present relationships, lengthy-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed additional gentle at the provide global round us.

Praise for A Month in Siena

“As exquisitely based as The Return, pushed via want, craving, loss, illuminated via the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph.”—Peter Carey