Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped.
It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of love, grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life..
A Month in Siena is the encounter between the writer and the city.
They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside the urgencies of the present.
A quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings.
In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School.
Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped