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Vertaalde literaire roman, novelle (21)
The Healing Season of Pottery
2024 || Hardcover || Yeon Somin || Viking
A heart warming and irresistible novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.
Jungmin is down on her luck. She's worked tirelessly as a screenwriter her whole life, and has finally burnt out.
But after months of isolation, she realises it's time to make a change, and ventures out into the streets near Seoul. When she stumbles upon a pottery workshop, a new world opens up to her.
Leaning into the joys of ...
The Granddaughter
2024 || Paperback || Bernhard Schlink || Weidenfeld & Nicholson
maandag verzonden
Hard Copy
2024 || Paperback || Fien Veldman || Head of Zeus
Joyful, tender, and strangely relatable . . . With sharp, playful prose, Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard
This is a story of girl meets printer.
A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams.
To her, it seems like a beautiful friendsh...
Mittens and Pity
2024 || Paperback || Banana Yoshimoto || Faber and Faber
maandag verzonden
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
2024 || Hardcover || Yoko Tawada || Granta
A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo
Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog she is intimate with. And when a young man with sharp canine teeth turns up at the schoolteache...
Suggested in the Stars
2024 || Paperback || Yoko Tawada || Granta
Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago ‘somewhere between China and Polynesia’, and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down a sushi chef from the same nation, but he has apparently lost the power of speech. If Hiruko is ever to hear her mother tongue again, a sceptical aphasia specialist is her last hope.
The Door-to-Door Bookstore (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Carsten Henn || Manilla Press
There's a book written for every one of us...
Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.
One evening as he makes his rounds, nine-year-old Schascha appears. Loud and precocious, she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books.
When Carl's job at the bookstore is thre...
The Postcard (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Anne Berest || Europa Editions
A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE
“A deeply moving book.” ―LEILA SLIMANI *** “A powerful exploration of family trauma.” ―LAUREN ELKIN
“A work of rare grace and importance.”―THE GUARDIAN
In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques.
Years later...