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Vertaalde literaire roman, novelle (30)
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 ...
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Morgan, My Love
Engelse editie
Paperback || Bas Steman || Nieuw Amsterdam || met inkijkexemplaar
'Steman schrijft prachtig over de liefde. Dit verhaal gaat veel mensen raken.' Adriaan van Dis
Morgan, een liefde is de autobiografische roman over de oorlog, maar bovenal over liefde die dwars door de dood heen een weg zoekt. De liefde tussen Morgan en Betrys wordt zo beeldend beschreven dat je hen nooit meer zal vergeten. De landschappen, de kusten, de muziek, de taal, het boek ademt Wales. Dit boek heeft de harten van duizenden mensen reeds gestolen maar vraagt om een groter publiek. Dit v...
The Granddaughter
2024 || Paperback || Bernhard Schlink || Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Sin
Paperback || Zakhar Prilepin || Vrije Uitgevers, De
Zakhar Prilepin's novel-in-stories, Sin, has become a literary phenomenon in Russia, where it was published in 2007. It has been hailed as the epitome of the spirit of the opening decade of the 21st century, and was called "the book of the decade" by the prestigious Super Natsbest Award jury. Now available for the first time in English, it not only embodies the reality of post-perestroika Russia, but also shows that even in this reality, just like in any other, it is possible to maintain a p...
Mittens and Pity
2024 || Paperback || Banana Yoshimoto || Faber and Faber
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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...
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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...
Hard Times
2018 || Paperback || Ostap Vyshnia || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
A brilliant satirist, Ostap Vyshnia (1889-1956) sent up the shortcomings of Soviet life and bureaucracy in the 1920s. He was famous in Ukraine almost exclusively for his feuilletons, and achieved enormous popularity in this genre in the 1920s, especially among the peasant population. Called by many the father of contemporary Ukrainian satire, he became the most-read author after Taras Shevchenko. Many village and town cooperatives, schools and farms were spontaneously named in his honour. Ove...
Death of the Snake Catcher
Paperback || Ak Welsapar || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two different worlds come together in Ryazan horseradish and Tula gingerbread, to come apart in Love in Lilac, in which a stu...