Savaş ve Terebentin

War and Turpentine Book Description Two notebooks of a young painter who was drafted into the army in the First World War, filled with memories of war and returning home, the records of a life divided by the horrors of the trenches, and the grandson to whom he inherited the notebooks, writer Stefan Hertmans... War and Turpentine, writer, poet and academician Stefan It is a fruit of the interrogations triggered by these notebooks, which Hertmans was only able to read and confront thirty years after taking over. Who was grandfather Urbain Martien? Where was she in the era and family history, with her transformed identities as an artist, a soldier, a war hero, a wife, and her artistic dreams left unfinished by the war? With this work, which stands at the intersection of novel, biography and autobiography, Stefan Hertmans reconstructs a past to which he himself belongs. War and Turpentine, published in 2013 and considered among the "classics of the future", received various literary awards in the Netherlands and Belgium; It was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. Stefan Hertmans, who walks in the same lane as the German writer WG Sebald with his style of fictionalizing life, is in Turkish for the first time with Savaş and Turebentin. (From the Promotional Bulletin)