Lust for Life

Irving Stone's biographical novel brings the painter Vincent van Gogh to life. Drawing on the artist's letters, it follows him from his restless youth through the coal-mining villages of Belgium, Paris, and the bright fields of southern France, showing his poverty, his devotion to his brother Theo and his stubborn need to paint. Readers get both a gripping story and a close look at how an artist is formed. The text is in Persian (Farsi/Dari).

Author: Irving Stone

Translator: Abolhassan Tahami

Persian title: شور زندگی

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