Un mes en Siena

Painting from the Sienese school materialized for the first time in the life of Hisham Matar when the then young student, and future author of The Return -the polyhedral autobiographical story awarded the Pulitzer Prize-, entered the National Gallery in London in seeks solace after the kidnapping and disappearance of his father at the hands of the Libyan secret police. Faced with this terrible family tear, the color, the delicacy of the invoice, the curious geometric forms and the dramatic impact of the compositions of Duccio di Buoninsegna and his disciples, which seem to defy the limits of the imagination, leave Hisham mysteriously captivated and they arouse in him a paradoxical feeling of hope in the human being. Twenty-five years later, as a devout believer who goes to the epicenter of his cult, the author finally visits the city where those works were conceived and immerses himself in direct contemplation of him, in search of a truth that illuminates the emotions. innermost part of him.