The Printmaker

by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

Overview

When a reclusive printmaker dies, his friend inherits the thousands of etchings and drawings he has stored in his house over the years. Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting this work, she seeks the advice of a curator. What compulsion drove the printmaker to make art for four decades, and why did he so seldom show his prints? When the curator discovers a single, sealed box addressed to a man in Zimbabwe, she feels compelled to go in search of him to present him with the package, hoping to find an answer to the enigma of the printmaker's solitary life. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s subtle and sophisticated novel reflects on one man’s obsessive need to make meaning through images and to find, in art, the traces of love and friendship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781415209134
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	626 KB

About the Author

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is the head of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand and the editor and co-founder of Fourthwall Books. She received her doctorate from New York University, where she taught writing and literature. She has edited books on art, design and architecture, and published essays on South African art and photography. Her short stories have appeared in New Contrast and Aerodrome. The Printmaker is her first novel.