How to Paint a Dead Man

The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power. With How to Paint a Dead Man , Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" ( The Guardian ), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read . . . an amazing feat of literary engineering" ( The Independent on Sunday ).