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Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser
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Publisher: Europa Editions
Condition: New
ISBN-13: 9798889661115
Author: Thomas Schlesser
Format: Hardcover
Sold by: The Sequoia Books
Thomas Schlesser's international bestseller is a luminous novel about a ten-year-old Parisian girl named Mona who briefly and inexplicably loses her sight, leaving doctors unable to rule out permanent blindness. Determined to fill the darkness that may be coming with beauty, her grandfather Henry takes her every Wednesday for a year to see one masterpiece at a time in the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, and the Centre Pompidou. Across fifty-two artworks, from Botticelli to Basquiat, Mona learns not only how to truly look but also lessons about love, loss, doubt, and generosity. Equally a moving story of a girl and her grandfather and an enthralling tour through five centuries of art, this is a book about why learning to see matters most when life feels fragile.