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The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal

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The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra

Author
Pedro Mairal
Narrator
Tony Chiroldes, Tony Chiroldes
Publisher
Lantern Audio
Publish Date
13 October 2014
Run Time
3 hours 22 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary
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At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At 20, 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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Author
Pedro Mairal
Narrator
Tony Chiroldes, Tony Chiroldes
Duration
3 hours 22 minutes
Release Date
13 October 2014
ISBN
9781942248125
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Lantern Audio
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

Synopsis

At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At 20, 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'Äôs 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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