{"product_id":"month-in-siena","title":"A 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\u003e Matar 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\u003e A 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\u003e Books 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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Month in Siena","offer_id":46473382166725,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-98705-6.jpg?v=1782868677","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/month-in-siena","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}