A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar Groundswell Speaker 2024

A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar Groundswell Speaker 2024FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AND MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year_______________________________________________Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art,

he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day

(Your sneeze droplets can reach up to eight meters – which means you could sneeze over an entire class

they dare him to go to the lair of the Mountain King

Then Ming announces her intention to transition

drag was a way to express himself as an artist

grief and depression

Scrooge visits his past

Is she ready to let him in

and with this potent book points where and how we must all go

‘A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller’ – Catherine Doyle

archaeologist Jim Leary traces the past 3

A challenge from a man no one has ever seen