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Literaire roman, novelle (153)
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2024 || Paperback || Joost de Vries || Prometheus || met inkijkexemplaar
De langverwachte nieuwe roman van Joost de Vries, een hoogtepunt in zijn oeuvre.
De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een sociaal ambitieuze ambtenaar, geslepen, schijnbaar stoïcijns. Zij is een schrijver in de dop, uitbundig, avontuurlijk, onverslaanbaar bijdehand. Niets hebben ze met elkaar gemeen – behalve dan dat ze niet kunnen ophouden aan elkaar te denken.
Wat volgt is een affaire die door de decennia brandt en zich in geheime kamer...
De trein van het zijn
(heeft vertraging)
2025 || Paperback || Erik Segers || Good Stuff! Books
'de wissels wissen het verleden
de toekomst spoort ons toe’
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Gust is een depressieve would-be dichter. Hij zoekt inspiratie en troost op de trein. Als hij op een dag bewusteloos raakt door een raadselachtige noodstop, belandt hij in een bizar netwerk van dichters, rode kwieten en trienen. Bovendien wordt hij hopeloos verliefd op een mysterieuze, bloedmooie dame. Zijn leven zat al niet meer op de rails en dreigt nu totaal te ontsporen. Of keert het lot, voor hij eraan ten onder gaat? Terw...
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Americanah
2014 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || Harper Collins
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of ba...
Washington Square
2010 || Paperback || Henry James || Oxford University Press
Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.
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Fight Club
2024 || Paperback || Chuck Palahniuk || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
|| Paperback || Jonathan Safran Foer || Penguin
'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of ...
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The Lonely Londoners
2006 || Paperback || Sam Selvon || Penguin Books
At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes.
Madame Bovary
2012 || Paperback || Gustave Flaubert || Vintage Publishing
A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery.
As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her...
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
2022 || Paperback || D. H. Lawrence || HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Fire Next Time
2024 || Paperback || James Baldwin || Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both blac...