The British writer Georgina Harding’s book ‘Painter of Silence’ was recently launched at the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in London. The novel published by Bloomsbury – one of the most prominent publishing houses in London, presents different angles of the dramatic Romanian 50s.

‘Painter of Silence’ tells the story of a moving friendship between Augustin, an odd man who is found on the steps of a hospital in a Moldovan village, who starts to draw in order to retell his life, and Safta, a nurse and also the only one who understands his drawings.

Georgina Harding is the author of the novel 'The Solitude of Thomas Cave' - Bloomsbury, 2007. Her second novel ‘The Spy Game’ was shortlisted for The Encore Award 2011.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: ICR London)