"I'd heard about him but had never seen him, the foreigner with the funny name who wandered the countryside painting pictures."

F rom a talented new author comes a poignant and haunting novel of creation and desire, passion and madness, art and love.

A young prostitute seeking temporary refuge from the brothel, Rachel awakens in a beautiful garden in Arles to discover she is being sketched by a red-haired man in a yellow straw hat. This is no ordinary artist but the eccentric painter Vincent van Gogh--and their meeting marks the beginning of a remarkable relationship. He arri...