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Grandfathers -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence -- Fiction.
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War and turpentine /...
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War and turpentine / Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
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Hertmans, Stefan, author.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2016.
Subjects
Grandfathers -- Fiction.
Grandsons -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781101874028 (hardback)
1101874023 (hardback)
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290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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First American edition.
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"An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story--his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War--from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. 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. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving him the impetus to imagine his way into the locked chambers of Urbain's memory. He vividly 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; 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 story, Urbain's 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. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)"--Provided by publisher.
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