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India, Indiase schrijver

Shrikant Verma – Magadh

Shrikant Verma Magadh review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Hindi dichtbundel uit 1984 van de Indiase schrijver. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van het boek met gedichten van de uit India afkomstige schrijver Shrikant Verma. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Shrikant Verma Magadh review en recensie

  • “Shrikant Verma brought to everything he did, whether poetry or journalism, a coruscating insight into the modes and styles of political supremacy. In Magadh, his collection of verse, excellently translated, we can see, eerily prefigured, our own present: the grand illusions, the raucous vanity, the chronic self-doubt and ultimate fragility of power.” (Pankaj Mishra)
  • “Forty years after, these poems are more relevant than ever, telling of power’s hollow victories, the peculiar burden of joy, how sorrow finds us wherever we may hide. This luminous translation renders Verma’s classic into timeless English prose. One of its many questions – “Whose corpse is this?” – has been answered by our own ongoing hollow moment: yours and mine.” (Jeet Tayil)

Shrikant Verma Magadh

Magadh

  • Auteur: Shrikant Verma (India)
  • Soort boek: Indiase Hindi poëzie, gedichten
  • Origineel: Magadh (1984)
  • Engelse vertaling: Rahul Soni
  • Uitgever: And Other Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang:
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Winnaar Sahitya Akademi Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met gedichten van Shrikant Verma de Hindi schrijver

Magadh, Shrikant Verma’s masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators – commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers – pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and richly allusive, Verma lays bare their tales of corruption, guilt, ignorance and arrogance.

Rahul Soni’s landmark translation stays faithful to the spare, haunting, incantatory cadences of the original, revealing how startlingly prescient and relevant Magadh remains today.

Shrikant Verma was born on 18 September 1931 in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He was a central figure in the Nai Kavita literary movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Verma served as special correspondent for Dinman, a major Hindi periodical, from 1966 to 1977. In 1976, he was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha on a Congress party ticket, and served as spokesman of the party through the late 1970s to the early 80s. He published two collections of short fiction, a novel, a travelogue, essays and five collections of poetry. Verma won a number of prizes, including the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously, for Magadh, in 1987. He died at the age of 54 on 25 May 1986  in New York City

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Indianen, Native American, Verhalen

Morgan Talty – Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review, recensie en informatie verhalen van de Native American en Penobscot Indian Nation schrijver. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Night of the Living Rez, de heruitgave van het debuut van Morgan Talty, de Amerikaanse schrijver van Indiaanse afkomst. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review en recensie

  • “Remarkable. An electric, captivating voice … Talty has assured himself a spot in the canon of great Native American literature.” (The New York Times)
  • “These stories took me in the same way Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son did when I first read it. The comparison here is meant in every way to praise Talty as a writer, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one who says so, partially because of his emotional precision, his stark, unflinching, droll, intoxicating style, and also because of a certain drug/addiction element at play here. But as I got deeper into the work, into the book, and came to understand these lives and this community, the further away it felt from my initial comparison with Johnson, and the more familiar it felt–our Native communities being bound by countless common threads, strengths and afflictions both–and only then did I understand the distinct brilliance of Talty’s voice as its own, and ours. I knew and felt for these people. Wanted to and knew I couldn’t help them, even as they did me. There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. I kept wanting to read and know more about these peoples’ lives, how they ended up where they ended up, how they would get out, how they wouldn’t. It is difficult to be so honest, and funny, and sad, at once, in any kind of work. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” (Tommy Orange)

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez

Night of the Living Rez

  • Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Native American verhalen uit 2022
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Morgan Talty, de native American schrijver

A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Fire Exit, his first novel was published in 2024. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensieMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Fire Exit
native American roman
Uitgever: And other Stories
Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Rosalind Belben – Dreaming of Dead People

Rosalind Belben Dreaming of Dead People recensie, review en informatie Engelse roman uit 1979. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de heruitgave de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Rosalind Belben die voor het eerst in 1979 verscheen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Rosalind Belben Dreaming of Dead People recensie, review en informatie

  • “So extraordinarily good that one wants more, recognising a writer who can conjure an inner life and spirit, can envisage, in unconnected episodes, a complete world: one unified not by external circumstances but by patterns of the writer’s mind.” (Isabel Quigly, Financial Times)
  • “Belben has written pages about sexual desire, frustration and loss which are clearer and more compelling than any I can think of in literature … An achievement to celebrate.” (Maggie Gee, The Observer)
  • “Her heroine is a solitary woman who tells of her past and recalls, often, the countryside, where being alone is not painful and, if there is no meaning to life, the call to the senses is immediate. The book is beautifully written.” (Hilary Baily, The Guardian)
  • “By turns shimmering and disquieting, Belben’s exceptional voice deserves a resurgence.” (Irenosen Okojie)
  • “Deeply strange, uncompromising and extraordinarily powerful.” (Jonathan Buckley)

Rosalind Belben Dreaming of Dead People

Dreaming of Dead People

  • Auteur: Rosalind Belben (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1979
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1979 van de Engelse schrijfster Rosalind Belben

In the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last.

The idiosyncratic Dreaming of Dead People was first published in 1979, yet remains as surprising as ever: it is frank, mordantly funny, true to itself and raw.

Rosalind Belben was born on 1 february 1941 in Dorset in the rural southwest of England where she spent her early childhood. From the age of nine she was at boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, in Devon. Almost straight from school she went in 1959 to work for the next two years in theatre, meaning to become a writer of stage plays. That didn’t happen. Her subsequent life has been nomadic, her experience and employment varied – with sometimes, nevertheless, years on end passed in a single place.

The countryside of Dorset has been both inspiration and recurrent setting. Quite as much, ‘abroad’ has exerted a powerful draw. There have been many adored destinations. Südtirol or the Alto Adige, the German-speaking Alpine region in the north of Italy, from 1978 – or in the 1990s Tunisia, with its myriad Roman and Phoenician remains and Islamic culture. Many epiphanies.

In 1987 Belben was in West Berlin as a Fellow of the Artist in Residence Program, staying for fifteen months. New editions of Dreaming of Dead People, Is Beauty Good and Choosing Spectacles are forthcoming from And Other Stories. Among her other novels are The Limit, Hound Music and Our Horses in Egypt, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2007.

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India, Indiase roman, Indiase schrijfster

Geetanjali Shree – The Roof Beneath Their Feet

Geetanjali Shree The Roof Beneath Their Feet review, recensie en informatie roman uit 2001 van de Indiase Hindi schrijfster. Op 3 februari 2026 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van Tirohit de roman van Geetanjali Shree, de schrijfster uit India. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Geetanjali Shree The Roof Beneath Their Feet review en recensie

  • “One of the finest Hindi writers, Geetanjali has created for herself a thoughtful, lyrical and contemporary fictional world, which is free from moral posturing and political hectoring. And Rahul Soni’s English translation of The Roof Beneath Their Feet is attentive to its poetic nuances and intelligently responsive to its complexity.” (Alok Bhalla)
  • “This is a playful, suggestive and lyrical work of fiction in the best traditions of the modern Indian novel. She [Geetanjali] plays language and memory like musical instruments. Words construct her text while the silences constitute the subtext. The roof in the novel becomes a space, something like the virtual world, where alternative lives are played out, and instinct and imagination break free of fragile social mores and conventions. liberatingly uninhibited and intensely poetic.” (K. Satchidanandan)
  • “Shree is an excellent observer of women’s inner lives … This book has come at last, and for me it has come as a breath of fresh air.” (The Observer)
  • “Geetanjali Shree’s prose is animated – the walls and doors have a special role to play. They hold people’s secrets. They have seen and heard things. They have eyes and ears, but none of the biases of people.” (Hindustan Times)

Geetanjali Shree The Roof Beneath Their Feet

The Roof Beneath Their Feet

  • Auteur: Geetanjali Shree (India)
  • Soort boek: Indiase roman, Hindi roman
  • Origineel: Tirohit (2001)
  • Engelse vertaling: Rabul Soni
  • Verschijnt: 3 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 184 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Geetanjali Shree de Indiase Hindi schrijfster

First publication (outside of India) for this playful and moving masterpiece of psychological intrigue and feminist space-making by the International Booker winner.

In this Indian modern classic by the International Booker Prize-winning author, roofs are meant for wild things, for romance and for play. They are realms of freedom – freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory.

Geetanjali Shree was born on 12 June 1957 in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize and of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, along with Daisy Rockwell, for her novel, Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi in the Hindi original). The French translation, published as Ret Samadhi: Au-dela de la frontier was shortlisted for the Emile Guimet Prize, 2021. Geetanjali Shree is the author of four other novels: Mai, Hamara Shahar Us Baras (Our City That Year), Khali Jagah (Empty Space), Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand), and five collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into many Indian and foreign languages.

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Nieuwe Boeken, Nieuwe romans, Uitgeverij

And Other Stories new books

And Other Stories new books, novels, stories, poetry and non fiction. Welke nieuwe romans en andere boeken verschijnen er bij de Engelse onafhankelijke uitgeverij & Other Stories? Boeken van welke schrijvers, schrijfsters en auteurs verschijnen er bij And Other Stories?

And Other Stories informatie

And Other Stories publiceert voornamelijk hedendaagse literatuur, waaronder veel vertalingen. We selecteren zorgvuldig en hopen dat u het met ons eens bent dat de boeken goed zijn, aan het denken zetten en de tand des tijds kunnen doorstaan. We streven ernaar de leesgrenzen van mensen te verleggen en hen te helpen auteurs met avontuurlijke en inspirerende teksten te ontdekken. En we willen de uitgeverij openstellen, zodat het van buitenaf niet op een chique vrijmetselarij lijkt.

& Other Stories new books, novels, stories, poetry and non fiction

Wat zijn de nieuwe romans, poezie, non-fictie en andere boeken die bij de Engelse uitgeverij And Other Stories verschijnen? De indeling van de boeken is op datum van verschijnen. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie, reviews, recensies en bestelmogelijkheden van de boeken.

Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape reviewGerald Murnane (Australië) – Landscape with Landscape
Australische verhalen uit 1985
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 13 januari 2026
Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s first collection of short fiction. These loosely connected stories trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature…lees verder >

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming reviewLeanne Betasamosake Simpson (Canada) – Noopiming
The Cure for White Ladies
Canadese First Nation roman
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
Akiwenzii is the old man and their will. Ninaatig is the maple tree; they are their lungs. Mindimooyenh is the old woman who holds it all together; she is their conscience. Sabe, the honest sasquatch, is the marrow in their bones. Adik is the caribou and their nervous system. Asin, human, is their eyes and ears; Lucy, human, their mind. Together they are Mashkawaji, our narrator, who may be frozen stiff but still remembers a time of connection everywhere…lees verder >

Shrikant Verma Magadh reviewShrikant Verma (India) – Magadh
Hindi gedichten en poëzie uit 1984
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
Magadh, Shrikant Verma’s masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators – commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers – pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and richly allusive, Verma lays bare their tales of corruption, guilt, ignorance and arrogance…lees verder >

Rosalind Belben Dreaming of Dead People recensie en reviewRosalind Belben (Engeland) – Dreaming of Dead People
Engelse roman uit 1979
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
In the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last…lees verder >

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez reviewMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Night of the Living Rez
Native American stories
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction…lees verder >

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review en recensieBanu Mushtaq (India) – Heart Lamp
Selected Kannada Stories
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
Winnaar International Booker Prize 2025
Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style…lees verder >

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Australië, Australische schrijver, Verhalen

Gerald Murnane – Landscape with Landscape

Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape review, recensie en informatie boek uit 1985 met verhalen van de Australische schrijver. Op 13 januari 2026 verschijnt bij And Others Stories de heruitgave van de verhalenbundel van Gerald Murnane, de uit Australië afkomstige schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape review en recensie

  • “The emotional conviction…is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiselled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.” (J. M. Coetzee)
  • “In this fiction, which lures the reader into thinking it is autobiographical because it seems so real, the narrator describes his journey towards writing the landscape.  Not the landscape around him that intrudes into his inner world, but a landscape of his own making.  This journey is both painfully droll and poignant.” (ANZ)
  • “Strange and wonderful and nearly impossible to describe.” (New York Times)

Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape

Landscape with Landscape

  • Auteur: Gerald Murnane (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische verhalen uit 1985
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 13 januari 2026
  • Omvang: 328 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs:
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Gerald Murnane

Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s first collection of short fiction. These loosely connected stories trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. Harshly reviewed upon publication, it is now lauded as some of his best writing, offering a wide-ranging exploration of the landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer.

Gerald Murnane was born on 25 February 1939 in Coburg, Victoria, Australia. He is the award-winning author of fifteen books in his native Australia. In 2019 Tamarisk Row and Border Districts, his first novel and his latest work of prose fiction respectively, were published to acclaim in the UK by And Other Stories, and are followed by Collected Short Fiction and Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs in 2020. More titles will follow. Known for his passion for horse-racing and his refusal to travel outside Australia, Murnane lives in the remote village of Goroke in the northwest of Victoria, near the border with South Australia.

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Canada, Canadese roman, Canadese schrijfster, Indianen

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson – Noopiming

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming review, recensie en informatie roman  van de Canadese Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg schrijfster. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories, de heruitgave van de roman uit 2021 van de Canadese schrijfster Leanne Betasamosake Simpson en a lid van de Alderville First Nation. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming review en recensie

  • “This brilliant novel is a carefully curated mix of prose and poetry, though the narrative and poetic form never leaves either; at all times, there is a deliberate attention to rhythm, movement, and sound. The layered storytelling is rich with wry and undeniable humour and introduces readers to an incredible cast of characters, giving us the perspective of Elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, braiding together past, present, and future and intentionally centring Nishnaabe life and practices.” (Globe and Mail)
  • “Language is thrilling in Simpson’s work, and nowhere more so than in this newest offering. This novel will be reread for its many truths and teachings and for its undeniable power. The complicated questions Noopiming poses are worth revisiting, and the novel’s wisdom will continue to grow as the reader does.” (Quill & Quire)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming

Noopiming

The Cure for White Ladies

  • Auteur: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Canada)
  • Soort boek: Canadese First Nation roman uit 2021
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs:
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Akiwenzii is the old man and their will. Ninaatig is the maple tree; they are their lungs. Mindimooyenh is the old woman who holds it all together; she is their conscience. Sabe, the honest sasquatch, is the marrow in their bones. Adik is the caribou and their nervous system. Asin, human, is their eyes and ears; Lucy, human, their mind. Together they are Mashkawaji, our narrator, who may be frozen stiff but still remembers a time of connection everywhere.

When Mashkawaji’s parts attempt to commune with the world around them, they find it’s a strange place, full of SpongeBob Band-Aids and branded coffee mugs. Exposing the unnatural solitude at the heart of settler-capitalism and fully grounded in Indigenous ways of being, Noopiming offers a moving and wickedly funny vision of what modern togetherness might look like – even as it breaks open the self to a world still alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of five previous books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan Book of the Year and the Peterborough Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Indigenous Author; was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award; was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads; and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, National Post, and Quill & Quire. She has released two albums, including f(l)ight, which is a companion piece to This Accident of Being Lost.

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India, Indiase schrijfster

Banu Mushtaq – Heart Lamp

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review, recensie en informatie boek met selected stories van de Indiase schrijfster die in de Kannada taal schrijft. Op 8 april 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories het boek met de Engelse vertaling van een aantal verhalen van de uit India afkomstige schrijfster Banu Mushtaq. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de vertaler. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review, recensie en informatie

  • “A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women with rare talent and art. Deepa Bhasthi’s rich translation captures the original’s nuances of voice, context and experience, bringing this important work into English for new readers in India and internationally.” (PEN Presents Selection Panel)
  • “These beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories rise from Kannada, interspersed with the extraordinary socio-political richness of other languages and dialects. It speaks of women’s lives, reproductive rights, faith, caste, power and oppression.” (Jury International Booker Prize 2025)

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp

Heart Lamp

Selected Stories

  • Auteur: Banu Mushtaq (India)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Deepa Bhasthi
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 8 april 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Winnaar International Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van de Indiase Kannada schrijfster Banu Mushtaq

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 1980s: critical of the caste and class system, the Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women.  She is the author of six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won major awards for her literary works, including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and the Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards. Previously translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam, the first book-length translation of her work into English will be Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, to be published in 2025, while one of the stories from Heart Lamp has been published in the Paris Review.

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Australië, Australische roman, Australische schrijver

Gerald Murnane – Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch review, recensie en informatie van de Australische roman uit 2009. Op 4 februari 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van de roman van de uit Australie afkomstige schrijver Gerald Murnane. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch review, recensie en informatie

  • “He is without question both the most original and most significant Australian author of the last 50 years, and one of the best writers Australia has produced.” (Emmett Stinson, The Guardian)
  • “Murnane is unlike anyone else, the sort of writer who demands to be read in a new way but, above all, demands to be read.” (Brian Evenson, Chicago Review of Books)

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch

Barley Patch

  • Auteur: Gerald Murnane (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman uit 2009
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 2009 van Gerald Murnane

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane’s first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, ‘Must I write?’ What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author’s mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the ‘stones’ as a child, from a cousin’s doll’s house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author’s mind.

The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane’s unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate.

Gerald Murnane is geboren op 25 februari 1939 in Coburg, Victoria in Australië. Na een korte tijd gestudeerd te hebben voor het priesterschap werd hij leraar op een lagere school. In 1969 behaald hij een bachelor in de kunsten aan de University of Melbourne. gedurende deze periode begon hij ook met schrijver wat in 1974 resulteerde in zijn debuutroman Tamarisk Row. Hij wordt tegenwoordig gezien als één van de meest vooraanstaande literaire auteurs uit Australië en er is meer en meer aandacht gekomen voor zijn werk. Inmiddels zijn twee van zijn boeken in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen.

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Yuri Herrera – Season of the Swamp

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over New Orleans. Op 5 november 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van de roman La estación del pantano van de uit Mexicaanse schrijver Yuri Herrera. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp recensie en review

  • “As glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo, the novel comes together as Herrera vividly depicts the chaos of Mardi Gras. It’s a triumph.” (Publishers Weekly)

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp

Season of the Swamp

  • Auteur: Yuri Herrera (Mexico)
  • Soort boek: Mexicaanse historische roman
  • Origineel: La estación del pantano (2022)
  • Engelse vertaling: Lisa Dillman
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 5 november 2024
  • Omvang:
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de historische roman over New Orleans van Yuri Herrera

New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec exile from Mexico named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city.

Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the stark trade in human beings.

With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera’s fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at the Tulane University, in New Orleans.

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