MONA'S EYES

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THE SENSATIONAL #1 FRENCH BESTSELLER THAT HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM An inspiring journey across five centuries of art in the company of ten-year-old Mona and her grandfather, Henry. They have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two masterpieces and commit to memory what is most beautiful in the world before Mona loses her sight forever. A novel of initiation that does for art what Jostein Gaarder's novel Sophie's World did for philosophy, with the emotional impact of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and the readability of Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind or The Little Paris Bookshop, Thomas Schlesser's sensational debut novel Mona's Eyes is at once a moving book about the fullness of life and a deeply touching story about the special relationship between a girl and her grandfather. The doctors can find no explanation for ten-year-old Mona's sudden, brief episode of blindness, but they all agree that it might return, and that permanent blindness cannot be ruled out. Mona's grandfather Henry may not be ...