Mona's Eyes

De: Thomas Schlesser, Hildegarde Serle

Narrado por: Holly Lucas

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Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses her sight forever.

While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona's brief episode of blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled out. The girl's grandfather, Henry, may not be able to stop his granddaughter from losing her sight, but he can fill the encroaching darkness with beauty.

Every Wednesday for a year, the pair abscond together and visit a single masterpiece in one of Paris's renowned museums. From Botticelli to Basquiat, Mona learns how each artist's work shaped the world around them. In turn, the young girl's world is changed forever by the power of their art. Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity, melancholy, love, loss, and revolution. Her perspective will never be the same — nor will the reader's.

Mona's Eyes is a heartfelt, enlightening journey across five centuries of Western art history. With the emotional impact of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and the readability of The Little Paris Bookshop, Thomas Schlesser's sensational debut novel is at once a moving book about the beauty of life and a deeply touching story about the special bond between a girl and her grandfather.

©2025 Thomas Schlesser (P)2025 Europa Editions

Beauty

Marvelous, just that. Marvelous. I must come up with more words to achieve the minimum for the review, but I can only leave it with that.

Doesn’t work well as an audiobook

Without a doubt, the discussion of art history is rich and detailed, and it’s almost like taking an art history class. However, it doesn’t really work well as an audiobook because it really would be best to listen to the book and look at the pictures that are being described at the same time. The story of the little girl losing her sight is just used as a backdrop basically to describe 50 works of art in detail. It’s really more like taking a class than it is listening to a story for which the characters are the central theme. I cannot make it through the entire book because painting after painting became Not repetitive but slightly overwhelming since I didn’t really have the pictures to look at- I gave it a try and it is interesting to hear the history of the works of art, but not when I can’t see the art in front of me