Maria Hummel Goldenseal. Op 9 januari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Counterpoint de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Maria Hummel. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verschenen of aangekondigd.
Maria Hummel Goldenseal recensie
- “Goldenseal is a novel about agency and friendship whose questions reverberate far beyond its two protagonists and their particular time and place. Haunting and tragic, it nevertheless lands on a hopeful note.” (Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times)
- “In this powerful saga of a family’s immigration and reinvention, Hummel explores themes of love, betrayal, and reconciliation . . . Hummel skillfully evokes the Cranes’ gilded world of hotels and Hollywood, and deeply explores the women’s fraught friendship from both points of view. Readers will be rapt.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “In this taut, tense, and layered novel, Hummel deftly examines the lives of two flawed women against the backdrop of the upheavals of the twentieth century.” (Booklist)
Informatie over Maria Hummel
Maria Hummel is een Amerikaanse schrijfster. Ze debuteerde in 2002 met Wilderness Run. Ze brak in 2014 door met de roman Motherland die in het Nederlands werd vertaald als Moederland. Daarna volgden de romans Still Lives in 2018 en Lessons in Red in 2021. De nieuwste roman van Maria Hummel, waarover je hier alles kunt lezen, verschijnt begin januari 2024.
Goldenseal
- Auteur: Maria Hummel (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Counterpoint
- Verschijnt: 9 januari 2024
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $27.00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Maria Hummel
A Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart.
Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven’t spoken to one another in over four decades.
As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret.
Set against the vivid landscapes of Los Angeles and unfolding with the evanescence of a dream or a memory, Goldenseal peels away the layers of an intimate female friendship to reveal a stirring and haunting story about the search for connection and the lingering echoes of lost love.