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War and Turpentine is the astonishing result of Hertmans' reckoning with his grandfather's diaries. It is a book that lies at the crossroads of novel, biography, autobiography and history... It seems aching to be called 'Sebaldian', and earns the epithet glowingly... In McKay's lyrical translation, every detail has the heightened luminosity of poetry... War and Turpentine has all the marking of a future classic. Neel Mukherjee Guardian
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War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans
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- Title
- War and Turpentine
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stefan Hertmans
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0099598043
- ISBN13
- 9780099598046
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Military Fiction, Wars, Loss, Diaries, World War I (1914–1918), Painting (art), Poverty, Based on True Events, Belgium, Perpetrator, Grandfather, Belgian Literature, Landscape Painting
- First published
- 2013
- Original title
- Oorlog en terpentijn
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- War and Turpentine is the astonishing result of Hertmans' reckoning with his grandfather's diaries. It is a book that lies at the crossroads of novel, biography, autobiography and history... It seems aching to be called 'Sebaldian', and earns the epithet glowingly... In McKay's lyrical translation, every detail has the heightened luminosity of poetry... War and Turpentine has all the marking of a future classic. Neel Mukherjee Guardian