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War and Turpentine (Paperback)
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War and Turpentine (Paperback)
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Price R213
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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.
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