A Month in Siena
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments.
Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in…
$37.99
October 22, 2019
Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.
My Friends
Hisham Matar
A Month in Siena
Hisham Matar
The Return
Hisham Matar
Anatomy of a Disappearance
Hisham Matar
In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar
The Art Thief
Michael Finkel
Dirt
Bill Buford
Old World Italian
Mimi Thorisson
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
Peter Mayle
Bella Figura
Kamin Mohammadi
Beyond Belfast
Will Ferguson
In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri; translated by Ann Goldstein
The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
French Country Cooking
Mimi Thorisson
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Ordinary Russians
Barry Broadfoot
The Table Comes First
Adam Gopnik
Heart of Dankness
Mark Haskell Smith
Au Revoir to All That
Michael Steinberger