Xinyue Chen

For NYT Book Reviews’ historical fiction column, about Sing to Me by Jesse Browner. After the fall of Troy, an eleven-year-old boy sets off for the razed city when his father and sister vanish into the war zone; this "gorgeously drawn" novel offers an intimate vision of the most storied war in history, as seen through the eyes of a child.

Keywords: Conceptual, Painterly, Watercolor, Animals, Architecture, Book Covers, Children, Historical, Landscape, Youth

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