Villa Dolores

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi ISBN: 6610000066704
Publisher: PublishDrive Publication: April 27, 2018
Imprint: PublishDrive Language: English
Author: Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi
ISBN: 6610000066704
Publisher: PublishDrive
Publication: April 27, 2018
Imprint: PublishDrive
Language: English

Villa Dolores is the moving story of the making of a painter.

After Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi’s birth in Mexico his American mother and Iranian father moved to Mallorca. The author’s island childhood was idyllic yet also crossed with violence and death. He later survived the brutality of European boarding schools. In Madrid his discovery of the paintings at the Prado became central to his coming of age as a painter, and as an exile from nowhere and everywhere. In Vienna when told he was about to die, he rejected the offer of last rites. Recovering in the Alps he lived a dramatic love affair. His educational odyssey ended when he returned to Villa Dolores for a last good bye.

The story ends as he is about to leave for America at the start of the nineteen sixties.

 

“Original, cosmopolitan, perceptive, these recollections make for a riveting read.”
Rory Brennan, poet and literary journalist

* *

“Extraordinary... The story still needs telling, and you spare nothing in the evidence you give.”
Peter Abbs, author of Against the Flow

Design: Peter Macken Dialogo Design

Cover Photo: Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi

For more information about the author please visit www.rafaelmahdabvi.com

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Villa Dolores is the moving story of the making of a painter.

After Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi’s birth in Mexico his American mother and Iranian father moved to Mallorca. The author’s island childhood was idyllic yet also crossed with violence and death. He later survived the brutality of European boarding schools. In Madrid his discovery of the paintings at the Prado became central to his coming of age as a painter, and as an exile from nowhere and everywhere. In Vienna when told he was about to die, he rejected the offer of last rites. Recovering in the Alps he lived a dramatic love affair. His educational odyssey ended when he returned to Villa Dolores for a last good bye.

The story ends as he is about to leave for America at the start of the nineteen sixties.

 

“Original, cosmopolitan, perceptive, these recollections make for a riveting read.”
Rory Brennan, poet and literary journalist

* *

“Extraordinary... The story still needs telling, and you spare nothing in the evidence you give.”
Peter Abbs, author of Against the Flow

Design: Peter Macken Dialogo Design

Cover Photo: Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi

For more information about the author please visit www.rafaelmahdabvi.com

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