a month in siena reviews

Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art Sienese paintings, such as Lorenzetti’s “The Effects of Good Government,” “articulate a feeling of hope,” Matar writes. Its intellectual and emotional depth is never forced, never exclusive. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return A Month in Siena is a brilliant miniature, a fugue but also a release. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 020-3176 3837. Its intellectual and emotional depth is never forced, never exclusive. Complete with gorgeous full-color reproductions of the artworks, A MONTH IN SIENA is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings and the city. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. His reactions and observations rang deeply and true. ‘A Month in Siena’ Review: The Consolation of Art A medieval city’s famous paintings help the author come to terms with his grief. And there is a deceptive simplicity to his endeavour: to look at art. Complete with gorgeous full-color reproductions of the artworks, A MONTH IN SIENA is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings and the city. Over the month, he talked with a variety of Sienese people, including a Jordanian man whom he befriended. That month would be an extraordinary period in Matar’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with the city and its inhabitants. Over the years since then, Matar’s feelings towards these paintings would deepen and, as he says, ‘Siena began to occupy the sort of uneasy reverence the devout might feel towards Mecca or Rome or Jerusalem’. A Month in Siena [Matar, Hisham] on Amazon.com. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Month in Siena is as much about the city and its people as it is about the famous artworks. A Month in Siena is a sweet, short mediation on art, grief, and life. The closed society of rival contrade was more off-putting than they had expected. • A Month in Siena is published by Viking (£12.99). Buy the Hardcover Book A Month In Siena by Hisham Matar at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore.