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An Artist's Story
by Bettina Forget

Rarely are visual artists the hero of the story, but these four books shine a light on some fascinating characters, both real and fictitious. Chaim Potok tells the story of an extraordinarily gifted boy whose talent for drawing isolates him from his cultural roots; Siegfried Lenz paints the picture of the life of Emil Nolde who was forbidden by the Nazis to create his "entartete Kunst"; Orhan Pamuk takes us to 16th century Istanbul and the life of miniature painters; and finally Rana Bose weaves a tale of a philosopher painter's mysterious set of canvases which hold a secret message.