{"product_id":"war-and-turpentine-a-novel","title":"War and Turpentine: A novel","description":"Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017\nA New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year\nAn Economist Best Book of the Year\n\nThe 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.\n\nWith vivid detail, the grandson 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; being 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 tale, the 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.\n\n(With black-and-white illustrations throughout)\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1101874023\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1101874023.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hertmans, Stefan|McKay, David\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Excellent condition with just a hint of character. Minor signs of love, but the pages are still clean and ready for adventure.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52902311362847,"sku":"PKV.1101874023.VG","price":4.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1101874023-0.jpg?v=1789923757","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/war-and-turpentine-a-novel","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}