A Month in Siena BOTY_2025 It really began in 1840

It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas

and when he comes to town for a book signing

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But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions

A Month in Siena BOTY_2025 It really began in 1840From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese