Topping the list, there's stunning Natsue pulling up in her white Mercedes. However, being a famous artist comes with a price - as if he's the blue ribbon strawberry pie at the county fair, a string of men and women all want their slice of Nakagi. Nakagi also serves as the tale's narrator, thus we follow the artist in his daily routine of morning run, painting, eating, drinking and occasional sex during his stay at a secluded cabin up in the mountains.
Since Nakagi paints mostly abstracts, we might think of him as we would Jackson Pollock or Clyfford Still or Hans Hofmann. Winter Sleep centers on Masatake Nakagi, age thirty-nine, an internationally renowned artist who has recently spent three years in prison for killing a man during a bar brawl. Winter Sleep, the author's fourth book translated into English, is a world away - this is a novel about artists and their art. You want gangsters and the underworld? Read Ashes, The Cage and City of Refuge.
) Length: pages: Original in: Japanese: Availability: Winter Sleep - US: Winter Sleep - UK: Winter Sleep - CanadaAuthor: Kitakata Kenzo.Kenzo Kitakata from Japan has made a career of writing hardboiled crime fiction. Winter Sleep: Author: Kitakata Kenzo: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. Working to perfect his art while ensuring that it can be enjoyed and understood by others, he settles. Having been a promising artist who accidentally kills someone during a fight, he has left jail and continued his painting.
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