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2019 · 22656 — New York City NY: Random House 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket. New York City NY: Random House 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 135 pages. Rare Hisham Matar collectible set. Pristine copies of "A Month In Siena" and the Granta Magazine Winter 2019 Issue both signed by Hisham Matar. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Hisham Matar's "A Month In Siena". The sequel-of-sorts to "The Return: Fathers Sons And The Land In Between" 2016. "Always finding comfort and clarity in great art Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting which flourished from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti evoke earlier engagements he'd had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. The month would be an extraordinary period in the writer's life: An exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. A gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape - current relationships long-lasting love grief intimacy and solitude - and shed further light on the present world around us" Publisher's blurb. "As exquisitely structured as 'The Return' driven by desire yearning loss illuminated by the kindness of strangers" Peter Carey. An absolute "must-have" title for Hisham Matar collectors. This copy is very prominently neatly and beautifully signed placed and dated shortly after publication in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Hisham Matar NYC 10th Nov 2019". It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of the Granta Magazine Winter 2019 Issue also very prominently neatly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on his brilliant Contribution "The Guests" Page 107 by the author. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know this is the only such signed placed and publication-year dated copy with signed Granta Magazine of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. A rare signed set thus. 16 color plates. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for "The Return: Fathers Sons And The Land In Between". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine collectible set. . ISBN 059312913X. Random House hardcover