{"product_id":"month-in-siena","title":"Month in Siena","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings'\u003c\/b\u003e Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e_______________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. \u003ci\u003eA Month in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e 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_______________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Bewitching, intensely moving'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40308448362674,"sku":"241987059","price":240.01,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/9602_611d1ee4f401f2.92799303_9780241987056_c1bacd2d-3077-48bd-8221-ecbc097017a3.jpg?v=1673191859","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/month-in-siena","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}