A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It’s as if we’re looking over the acclaimed novelist’s shoulder as she looks intently at a sequence of images, guided by her dead mother’s voice showing and questioning, Virgil to her Dante. Ideas wreath like smoke. Beautifully published by the Munch Museum in Oslo.
So in the Spruce Forest
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ÂŁ10.95
Edition:Hardback978828462050314/05/2025From a Bookshelf nearby
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This close analysis, gorgeously illustrated, amounts to a superb study of the Baroque phenomenon everywhere, as well as of vast and elegant Danish palaces.
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A magnificent account of how the Vikings saw themselves, including also the Viking diaspora, from Finland to Uzbekistan, and also the role of slavery in Viking life and trade that was glosse... read more
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A spare and engaging chronicle of the summers spent in a small cabin on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland with her partner, who did the illustrations.

