WAR AND TURPENTINE

Shortly before his death at the age of 90, Stefan Hertmans grandfather Urbain gave his grandson a set of notebooks.As Stefan began to read, he found himself drawn into a conversation across the centuries, as Urbain so quiet and reserved in life revealed his e loquence and his private passions on the page. Gradually, as he learned of his grandfathers heroics in the First World War, the los s of his great love, and his later years spent seeking solace in art and painting, a portrait emerged of the grandfather he had neve r fully known...[Read more]