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Painter of Silence

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Bloomsbury presents Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding, read by Sian Thomas

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.

Critics Review

Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Michael Ondaatje ... delicate and sweeping
Daily Mail
This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions
Independent on Sunday
I loved Painter of Silence. It was like entering a dream world that became more and more real, until I actually needed to get back to it. Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away. Heaven
Esther Freud
Painter of Silence insists on being recommended because of its unassertive originality, its sense of history, its knowledge of the unsaid and the unsayable, and - not least - its delightfully surprising ending
Independent
Harding writes with exquisite restraint ... Her deceptively simple prose gives a startling beauty to the ordinary, and evokes great depth of suffering
Guardian
Harding's writing has a careful, lilting fluency which nourishes a slow-burning momentum ... an adroit examination of our need for a home, and the terrible consequences of its loss
Daily Telegraph
A must-read ... Hauntingly beautiful, for fans of The English Patient
Red
Author Georgina Harding
Narrator Sian Thomas
Duration 7 hours and 45 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9798260202555
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability US

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