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War & turpentine : a novel / Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
"The life of Urban Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s 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 man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101874028
- Physical Description: 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in the Netherland as Oorlog en terpentijn by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, in 2013"--Title page verso. "This translation originally published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, London, in 2016"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Grandfathers > Fiction. Grandsons > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > Influence > Fiction. |
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