{"product_id":"9781101872116","title":"War and Turpentine","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the International Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Best Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Best Translated Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies con­tained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In \u003ci\u003eWar and Turpentine, \u003c\/i\u003ehis grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith vivid detail, the grandson 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; being 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 tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renais­sance fresco, \u003ci\u003eWar and Turpentine \u003c\/i\u003epaints an ex­traordinary portrait of one man’s life and re­veals how that life echoed down through the generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014625771760,"sku":"9781101872116","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101872116_p0.jpg?v=1763689805","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101872116","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}