{"product_id":"book-df3z","title":"A Month in Siena","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After finishing his powerful memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, \u003ci\u003eA Month in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Month in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As exquisitely structured as \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. \u003ci\u003eA Month in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph.”\u003cb\u003e—Peter Carey\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328823042352,"sku":"BDdf3z","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411615-df3z-Square.jpg?v=1733726136","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-df3z","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}