The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra

Download or Read eBook The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra PDF written by Pedro Mairal and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
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Publisher : New Vessel Press
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781939931061
ISBN-13 : 1939931061
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Book Synopsis The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by : Pedro Mairal

Book excerpt: At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he began secretly painting a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed six decades of life in his village on Argentina’s river frontier with Uruguay. After the death of Salvatierra, his sons return to the village from Buenos Aires to deal with their inheritance: a shed packed with painted rolls of canvas stretching over two miles in length and depicting personal and communal history. Museum curators from Europe come calling to acquire this strange, gargantuan artwork. But an essential roll is missing. A search ensues that illuminates the links between art and life, as an intrigue of family secrets buried in the past cast their shadows on the present.


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