num_pages: 208
description: From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time  is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show at a fashionable gallery. Where has he gone? Why has he gone? The only clues may lie in the diary, written in Hungarian, that Lavin has left behind in his studio. With uncanny understanding, John Berger has written oneo f hte most convincing portraits of a painter in modern literature, a revelation of art and exile.
language: English
title: A Painter of Our Time: A Novel
titlecomplete: A Painter of Our Time: A Novel
characters: Janos Lavin
genres: 20th Century, Art, Unfinished, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 308
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group