War and turpentine  -  Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans

KORTE INHOUD

Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron foundry an inferno.

During the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is...
2017 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2017 Uitgever: Ballantine Books Vertaler: David McKay 304 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0099598043 ISBN-13: 9780099598046