In English
Libris 2014 · Shortlist
War and Turpentine
Oorlog en terpentijn
Stefan Hertmans · 62 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · War, Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Before he died, Urbain Martien left his grandson two notebooks recording his life. Thirty years later the grandson, a writer, reconstructs it: a poor childhood in Ghent, the trenches of the First World War, a dream of painting.