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Painting & paintings, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Fiction in translation
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MacLehose Press
- Paperback May 31, 2022 | 9781787479531 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback May 11, 2021 | 9780857059871 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 10, 2021 | 9780857059864 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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MacLehose Press
- Paperback May 31, 2022 | 9781787479531 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback May 11, 2021 | 9780857059871 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 10, 2021 | 9780857059864 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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Imprint
MacLehose Press
- Paperback May 31, 2022 | 9781787479531 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback May 11, 2021 | 9780857059871 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 10, 2021 | 9780857059864 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
A highly original coming-of-age story: the artistic and emotional apprenticeship of a young decorative painter, from the award-winning author of Mend the Living
"One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders" Beejay Silcox, Guardian
Behind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Metal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides a secret and every vein in a slab of marble tells a story.
Among these students are Kate, Jonas and Paula Karst. Together, during a relentless year of study, they will learn the techniques of reproducing materials in paint, and the intensity of their experience - the long hours in the studio, the late nights, the conversations, arguments, parties, romances - will cement a friendship that lasts long after their formal studies end.
For Paula, her initiation into the art of trompe l' il will take her back through time, from her own childhood memories, to the ancient formations of the materials whose depiction she strives to master. And from the institute in Brussels where her studies begin, to her work on the film sets of Cinecitta, and finally the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, her experiences will transcend art, gradually revealing something of her own inner world, and the secret, unreachable desires of her heart.
A coming-of-age novel like no other: an atmospheric and highly aesthetic portrayal of love, art and craftsmanship from the acclaimed author of Birth of a Bridge and Mend the Living.
Translated from the French by Jessica Moore
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Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her novel, Birth of a Bridge, was the winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix MA dicis in 2010. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living, was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and TA lA rama. In the UK, Mend the Living was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017 - only the second novel and the first work in translation ever to do so.
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