a| 2015041100

a| 9781101874028 (hardback)

a| DLC b| eng e| rda c| DLC

a| eng h| dut

a| pcc

a| PT6466.18.E76 b| O5713 2016

a| 839.313/64 2| 23

a| FIC045000 a| FIC014000 a| FIC019000 2| bisacsh

a| Hertmans, Stefan, d| 1951- 0| (viaf)79056323

a| War and turpentine : b| a novel / c| Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay.

a| New York : b| Pantheon, c| 2016.

a| 1608

a| 290 pages: ill.

a| Previously published in Dutch as Oorlog en terpentijn (Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij, 2013); English translation originally published by Harvill Secker in 2016, in London.

a| "An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story--his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War--from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier, survivor of World War I--lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving him the impetus to imagine his way into the locked chambers of Urbain's memory. He vividly 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; 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 story, Urbain's 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. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)"-- c| Provided by publisher.

a| "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his grandfather's story. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier, survivor of the incomprehensible--lies contained in two notebooks written before his death in 1981. His grandson, a writer, imagines his way into the locked chambers of Urbain's memory: retouching church paintings as a boy, dodging death in an iron foundry, and, ultimately, fighting the war that altered the course of human history. There is Urbain's father, the lowly church painter; Urbain's wife, Gabrielle, his true love's sister; and Urbain's canvas, the ever-present reminder of the artist he wanted to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this story, the narrator straddles past and present, searching for a place in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints the extraordinary story of one man's life and the echo of its impact resounding through the generations. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay"-- c| Provided by publisher.

a| Grandfathers v| Fiction. 2| lcsh

a| Grandsons v| Fiction. 2| lcsh

a| Life change events v| Fiction. 2| lcsh

a| World War, 1914-1918 x| Influence v| Fiction. 2| lcsh

a| Domestic fiction. 2| fast 0| (OCoLC)fst01726589

a| Oorlog en terpentijn.

a| McKay, David, d| 1973- 4| trl

m| BOOK b| KANTL c| KANTL j| KANTL.102 6| 40409 p| 826170-10 f| 04 F| NO LOAN/open shelves

a| boek

a| New York : b| Pantheon, c| 2016.