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War and Turpentine: A Novel
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War and Turpentine: A Novel
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War and Turpentine: A Novel
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War and Turpentine: A Novel

Written by Stefan Hertmans

Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith

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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017
A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year

The life of Urbain 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.

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Release dateAug 9, 2016
ISBN9780735209213
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War and Turpentine: A Novel
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Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans (1951) fue profesor de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Gante, y es considerado uno de los escritores en neerlandés más importantes de la actualidad. Ha publicado novelas, libros de cuentos, ensayos y poesía, y ha sido distinguido en Holanda y en Flandes con galardones tan prestigiosos como el Premio de Poesía del Estado Belga, que recibió en 1995. Guerra y trementina ha cosechado encendidos elogios de la crítica tanto en su país como en todos aquellos donde se ha publicado traducido, y ha ganado el Premio ECI 2014, el Premio de las Letras Flamencas 2014 y el Premio del Lector Gouden Boekenuil 2014, además de ser finalista del Man Booker Prize 2017 y elegido Mejor Libro del Año por The New York Times y The Economist.  Fotografía © Michiel Hendryckx - AEG voor BB.

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