MONA'S EYES by Thomas Schlesser (Audiobook)(Fiction)

MONA'S EYES by Thomas Schlesser (Audiobook)(Fiction)

Author: Thomas Schlesser​
Full title: Mona’s Eyes: A Novel
Length: approximately 15 hours 50–54 minutes​​
Narrator: Holly Lucas
Release: August 25, 2025​
Genre/Categories: Fiction; Literary; Coming‑of‑age; Art & culture; Contemporary European novel; Audiobook​​

Ten‑year‑old Mona experiences a sudden, unexplained episode of blindness; though her sight returns and medical tests find no clear cause, doctors warn that permanent vision loss remains a real possibility. Her eccentric, deeply cultured grandfather Henry cannot cure her, but he vows to fill whatever time she has left with as much beauty as possible, taking her every Wednesday for a year to see one masterpiece in Paris’s great museums—Louvre, Orsay, Pompidou—moving from Botticelli through Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Manet, Picasso, Basquiat, and beyond. Each painting becomes a lesson about generosity, melancholy, love, loss, revolt, and hope, gradually reshaping Mona’s understanding of the world and of herself; the novel doubles as an emotionally rich grandfather‑granddaughter story and an accessible journey through five centuries of Western art.