War and Turpentine

by Stefan Hertmans

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101874023
• ISBN13: 9781101874028
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 9.3"