{"product_id":"a-month-in-siena","title":"A Month in Siena","description":"\u003cp\u003eFROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e_______________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School. They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside the urgencies of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. A Month in Siena is the encounter between the writer and the city. It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of love, grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.\u003cbr\u003e_______________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book' New Statesman, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Bewitching, intensely moving' The Economist, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47277386989791,"sku":"9780241987056","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780241987056.jpg?v=1756157958","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/a-month-in-siena","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}