Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian and The Millions An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter.
As she did in her acclaimed novels The Heart and The Cook , de Kerangal unravels a tightly wound professional world to reveal the beauty within..
An enchanted and atmospheric coming-of-age novel, Painting Time is an intimate and unsparing exploration of craft, inspiration, and the contours of the contemporary art world.
With the attention of a documentary filmmaker, de Kerangal follows Paula\'s career, which is punctuated by brushstrokes, hard work, sleepless nights, sore muscles, and long, festive evenings.
She resolutely chooses the painstaking demands of craft over the abstraction of high art.
Unlike the friends she makes at school, Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she\'s painting--replicating a wood\'s essence or a marble\'s wear requires method, technique, and talent, she finds, but also something else: craftsmanship.
In Maylis de Kerangal\'s Painting Time , we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels.
Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian and The Millions An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter
