Painter of Silence

Author : Georgina Harding

Paperback

Published : Thursday 26 April 2012

ISBN : 9781408830420

Price : €11.69

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Description

An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with which he can draw. Slowly, painstakingly, memories appear on the page. The memories are Safta's also. For the man is Augustin, son of the cook at the manor house which was Safta's family home. Born six months apart, they grew up with a connection that bypassed words. But while Augustin's world remained the same size Safta's expanded to embrace languages, society - and a fleeting love, one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same.

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