Painter of silence
Title:
Painter of silence
Author:
Harding, Georgina, 1955-
ISBN:
9781408830420
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury, 2012
Physical Description:
312 p. ; 20 cm
Abstract:
Augustin, a deaf mute and the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter, is found on the steps of the hospital in Ias綑, Romania, where she works and remembering him, Safta brings him paper and pencil so he may draw, which brings the two of them back together again in a friendship that bypasses social classes
Subject:
| Deaf -- Fiction |
| Artists -- Fiction |
| Social classes -- Fiction |
| Romania -- History -- 1944-1989 -- Fiction |
Summary:
Augustin, a deaf mute and the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter, is found on the steps of the hospital in Ias綑, Romania, where she works and remembering him, Safta brings him paper and pencil so he may draw, which brings the two of them back together again in a friendship that bypasses social classes