The Painted Caves

Synopsis

Richard Derain has his own way of viewing life. This novel opens in Rome where Richard has gone to study painting. Here nothing can be taken for granted, influences, pressures, private codes, powerful personalities all tangle up the path of headstrong youth. Against the backgrounds of the city bustle of Rome and the ever-changing vitality of Africa, the author describes with great subtlety the dawn of love in the young artist's heart, and evokes the torture of adolescence turning into manhood.