“Henry Vuillemin’s beloved granddaughter, Mona, appears to be losing her sight. He may have only a year to show her as much beauty as he can before her world goes dark. He hatches a plan to study a single artwork per week with the 10-year-old. Then she can carry the memory of these seminal pieces spanning 300 years, from Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci to Boltanski and Soulages, into the unseen future. They work their way through highlights of the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, and Centre Georges-Pompidou... No surprise that the novel’s author is a professor of art history at the École Polytechnique in Paris; his characters channel his dazzling command of the greats.”
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