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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografische roman, Opera

Jerome Charyn – Maria La Divina

Jerome Charyn Maria La Divina review, recensie en informatie roman over operazangeres Maria Callas. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de roman van Jerome Charyn, de Amerikaanse schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jerome Charyn Maria La Divina review en recensie

  • “Deftly crafted … Maria La Divina once again showcases author Jerome Charyn as a novelist of extraordinary literary ability.” (Midwest Book Review)
  • “Charyn impressively covers events, places, and people (even an older Winston Churchill) with a solid pace that never stalls. . . . The complex genius of the Divine Diva will stay with any reader of this work.” (Historical Novels Review)
  • “A bravura performance that hits all the right notes and is sure to delight opera devotees and fans of strong women characters.” (Library Journal)
  • “One of the most moving episodes of Maria La Divina is also the moment when the conventions of biography and of the novel collide … What distinguishes the greatest biographical novelists is not only the judicious liberties taken with the biographical record, and the profound respect accorded to what cannot be known, but also the devotion to fiction itself that reverberates in the reader’s imagination.” (New York Sun)

Jerome Charyn Maria La Divina

Maria La Divina

  • Auteur: Jerome Charyn (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: roman over operazangeres Maria Callas
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst roman over Maria Callas van Jerome Charyn

Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality.

Callas, an outsider from an impoverished background, was shunned by the Italian opera houses, but through sheer force of will and the power and range of her voice, she broke through the invisible wall to sing at La Scala and headline at the Metropolitan Opera, forging an unforgettable career. Adored by celebrities and statesmen, the notable and notorious alike, her every movement was shadowed by both music critics and gossip columnists—until, having lost her voice, she died alone in an opulent, mausoleum-like Paris apartment.

In Charyn’s inimitable style, Maria La Divina humanizes the celebrated diva, revealing the mythical artist as a woman who survived hunger, war, and loneliness to reach the heights of acclaim.

Jerome Charyn is born on 13 May 1937 in New York City. He is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Maria La Divina; Ravage & Son; Sergeant Salinger; Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin; In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Culture at the American University of Paris, Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Manhattan.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Andrew Krivak – Mule Boy

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 24 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van Andrew Krivak afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy review en recensie

  • “Sometimes you hold a writer so close you want them all to yourself. Andrew Krivak has been that writer for me and his Mule Boy blazes so brightly it has already become, in my life, a great constellation. This novel is bewitching sorcery, a total wonder, a raging fever dream that sings and bellows and captures the entirety of our lives—all the things we fear and love and let go of and win back and cherish the most. It should, and will, stand alongside the works of Roberto Bolaño, Marilynne Robinson, and Denis Johnson. Here is a tale for our times, for all time.” (Paul Yoon)
  • “Andrew Krivak is one of contemporary fiction’s finest architects of the line, and I am utterly swept away by his lyric, daring, and kinetic music. Mule Boy is a riveting exploration of the ghosts we carry coiled within us—and what is unleashed when they leap out into the present. This book is as brilliant and sure as a bolt of lightning.” (Laura van den Berg)
  • “Descending into the coal mines of Pennsylvania in the early part of the twentieth century, Andrew Krivak has come up with a diamond. Mule Boy is both mesmerizing and emotionally shattering. Its beautiful, hypnotic, lyrical prose, often reminiscent of the scriptures, casts a spell so profound that you will not want to break out of it.” (Neel Mukherjee)

Andrew Krivak Mule Boy

Mule Boy

  • Auteur: Andrew Krivak (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Andrew Krivak

On New Year’s Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger—his father died in the mines—but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed.

From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family. But, years later, when the miners’ loved ones come searching for answers, he finds the strength to share what the men spoke of and prayed for in the pitch black.

Told in incantatory prose set to the rhythm of human breath, this sublime novel turns the memento mori into a meditation not only on death but on what it takes to tunnel through darkness and live.

Andrew Krivak is an award-winning writer whose books include Mule Boy (2026);The Bear (De beer), a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection; and the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses, a Library Journal “Best Book of the Year” and Indie Next List for Reading Groups selection. He is a discussion facilitator with the Family Connections Center, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, and visiting lecturer on English at Harvard University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Historische Roman

Norman Lock – Eden’s Clock

Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review, recensie en informatie over de Amerikaanse historische roman. Op 1 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van Norman Lock, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Het is een nieuw deel in The American Novel Series. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review en recensie

  • “Norman Lock has created a memorable portrait gallery of American subjects, in a succession of audaciously imagined, wonderfully original, and beautifully written novels unlike anything in our literature.” (Joyce Carol Oates)
  • “Our national history and literature are Norman Lock’s playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . . [His] supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate engagement with our literary heritage evinces
    pride in its unique character.” (Wendy Smith, The Washington Post)

Norman Lock Eden's Clock

Eden’s Clock

The American Novel Series

  • Auteur: Norman Lock (Verenigde Staten
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 1 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische roman van Norman Lock

Rendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist and resumes his vocation as a clocksmith. Bereft after she dies in a freak accident, he accepts a commission to repair the enormous clock on the San Francisco Embarcadero, but the routine railway journey becomes a six-month odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and run-ins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel bar—just before one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.

Eden’s Clock, the twelfth and final stand-alone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces.

Norman Lock is the award-winning author of the dozen volumes in The American Novels series, as well as other novels, short fiction, poetry, and stage and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and has been longlisted twice for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He has also received writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.

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Amerikaanse roman

J. Richard Osborn – Not Long Ago Persons Found

J. Richard Osborn Not Long Ago Persons Found recensie, review en informatie eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en dichter. Op 10 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver J. Richard Osborn. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

J. Richard Osborn Not Long Ago Persons Found recensie en review

  • “Refreshing. If one reads the novel as an allegory, it changes the reader’s perspective.” (North of Oxford)
  • “Unique and intriguing. In Not Long Ago Persons Found, demonstrable evidence of facts does not serve as the bedrock of what is presented by authorities as the truth. These lessons, and this novel, are both important and timely.” (PopMatters)

J. Richard Osborn Not Long Ago Persons Found

Not Long Ago Persons Found

  • Auteur: J. Richard Osborn (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van J. Richard Osborn

The body of a young boy is found floating in a city river with pollen in his lungs from a warm river valley far from the country where he died. Who is he? Why was he carrying only a library card and decorative clay bottle? How is it that he came so far, only to meet with a violent fate?

A biological anthropologist and her husband, the forensic team’s translator, are tasked by their agency to gather evidence from the far away country and deliver an explanation—preferably one that suits the political regimes of both countries. But as the scientists’ clandestine, parallel study of recent mass graves brings them closer to finding a link between the boy and “the disappeared,” the full forces of bureaucracy, fatalism, and forgetting are marshalled against them.

J. Richard Osborn is a poet and fiction writer living in Oakland, California. A video performance of his long poem, “Crève Coeur,” has been screened at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, as well as other venues. His fiction has appeared in the New England Review and Yale Literary Magazine. Not Long Ago Persons Found is his first novel.

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Spaanse roman, Spaanse schrijver

Juan José Millás – Only Smoke

Juan José Millás Only Smoke recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Spaanse roman. Op 14 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Solo humo van de uit Spanje afkomstige schrijver Juan José Millás. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Juan José Millás Only Smoke recensie en review

  • “Unpredictable, introspective… This wonder of a book can be experienced in one or two sittings and encourages a second reading.” (Literary Journal)
  • “Spellbinding. As they did with their beguiling translation of From the Shadows, Thomas Bunstead and Daniel Hahn adeptly capture the crispness of Millás’s dialogue and dark humor… [Only Smoke] can be read in a day. Then again and again. Like
    a very good fairy tale.” (Words Without Borders)

Juan José Millás Only Smoke

Only Smoke

  • Auteur: Juan José Millás (Spanje)
  • Soort boek: Spaanse roman
  • Origineel: Solo humo (2024)
  • Engelse vertaling: Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn
  • UitgeverL Bellvue Litarary Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Juan José Millás

On his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: his father, whom he never knew, has died and left him his apartment. As he goes through the man’s belongings, Carlos comes across a manuscript that tells the unsettling story of a secret affair, a love child, and a butterfly. Is this a confession or pure fiction?

As Carlos begins to make the apartment his own, he immerses himself in the tales of the Brothers Grimm left on the nightstand, embarking on a journey that will bring him closer to his father and teach him how to navigate the invisible borders between reality and fantasy, sanity and madness.

At once wildly unpredictable, darkly entertaining, and surprisingly tender, Only Smoke is an ode to the imagination and the transformative power of literature.

Juan José Millás was born on 21 january 1946 in Valanceia, Spain. He is a bestselling Spanish author and recipient of Spain’s most prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. He is the author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction as well as over a dozen novels.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Reisverhalen, Wandelen

Charlotte Taylor Fryar – Potomac Fever

Charlotte Taylor Fryar Potomac Fever recensie en informatie boek over de Potomac rivier in de Verenigde Staten. Op 11 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press het boek over de rivier Potomac van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Charlotte Taylor Fryar. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Charlotte Taylor Fryar Potomac Fever review, recensie en informatie

  • “Fryar seamlessly weaves a fascinating history of racial, class, and gendered divisions that exist in and outside of Washington, D.C.’s quintessential worlds of interrelated nature and American (in)humanity.” (Marcie Cohen Ferris, coeditor of Southern Cultures journal)

Charlotte Taylor Fryar Potomac Fever

Potomac Fever

Reflections on the Nation’s River

  • Auteur: Charlotte Taylor Fryar (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: non-fictie, wandelboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 11 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de Potomac River Charlotte Taylor Fryar

As she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, Charlotte Taylor Fryar examines the geography and ecology of Washington, D.C. with all manner of flora and fauna as her witness. The ecological traces of human inhabitancy provide her with imaginative access into America’s past, for her true subject is the origin of our splintered nation and racially divided capital.

From the gentrified neighborhood of Shaw to George Washington’s slave labor camp at Mount Vernon, Potomac Fever maps the troubled histories of the United States by leading us along the less-trafficked trails and side streets of our capital city, steeped in the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism. In the end, Fryar offers hope for how “we might grow a society guided by the ethics and values of the places we live.”

A compelling synthesis of historical, environmental, and personal narrative, Potomac Feverexposes the roots of our national myths, awash in the waters of America’s renowned river.

Charlotte Taylor Fryar is a writer, historian, educator, and herbalist. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, less than seven hundred feet from the banks of the Potomac River. Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River is her first book.

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Tsjechische roman, Tsjechische schrijfster

Magdaléna Platzová – Life after Kafka

Magdaléna Platzová Life after Kafka recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over Franz Kafka van de Tsjechische schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Život po Kafkovi van de uit Tsjechië afkomstige auteur Magdaléna Platzová. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Magdaléna Platzová Life after Kafka recensie en review

  • “A deeply empathetic story of survival, exile, and belonging. Magdaléna Platzová allows Felice Bauer to step out of Kafka’s shadow and, in the process, she recognizes that there is always so much more than one truth. This is a powerful, kaleidoscopic literary novel.” (Column McCann)
  • “Kafka afficionados will thrill to this. . . . Equal parts family memoir and a tantalizing publishing detective story, Life After Kafka raises questions about memory, privacy, and the impact on each by the passage of time.” (Historical Novels Review)

Magdalena Platzova Life after Kafka

Life after Kafka

  • Auteur: Magdaléna Platzová (Tsjechië)
  • Soort boek: Tsjechische roman
  • Origineel: Život po Kafkovi (2022)
  • Engelse vertaling: Alex Zucker
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 17,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over Franz Kafka van Magdaléna Platzová

Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler’s Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka’s entourage—including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken—as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka’s son approaches Felice’s son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka’s letters to Felice begins.

While taking the measure of literary fame’s long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.

Magdaléna Platzová (8 maart 1972, Praag) is the author of several books, including three novels published in English: Aaron’s Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist, The Attempt, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and a Czech Book Award finalist, and Life After Kafka, a Magnesia Litera award finalist. Her fiction has also appeared in A Public Space and Words Without Borders. Platzová grew up in the Czech Republic; studied in Washington, DC, and England; received her MA in Philosophy at Charles University in Prague; and has taught at New York University’s Gallatin School. She is now based in Lyon, France.

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Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

Cormac James – Trondheim

Cormac James Trondheim. Op 6 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijver Cormac James.  Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Cormac James Trondheim recensie

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van de roman Trondheim, geschreven door de Ierse schrijver Cormac James, kun je er hier over lezen.

  • “Delicately and deeply probes the mothers and their relationship.” (Katie Kitamura, New York Times Book Review)

Cormac James boeken en informatie

Cormac James is in 1971 geboren in Ierse stad Cork. Hij studeerde Engelse literatuur op het Trinity College in Dublin studeerde af met een master’s degree in creative writing aan de University of East Anglia in de Engelse stad Norwich. Cormac James woont en werkt in de Franse stad Montpellier.

Na eerst een aantal verhalen te hebben gepubliceerd in verschillende tijdschriften verscheen in 2000 de debuutroman van Cormac James Track and Field, gevolgd in 2016 door de roman The Surfacing die in het Nederlands is vertaald als Dwars door het ijs. Zijn derde roman waarover je hier alles kunt lezen, verschijnt op 6 februari 2024.

Cormac James Trondheim

Trondheim

  • Auteur: Cormac James (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $17.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijver Cormac James

A son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness.

In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake. His mothers rush across the continent to his bedside where they endure the strain of helpless waiting. As the tense hospital vigil continues day after day and they vacillate between extremes of hope, fear, and psychic pain, their troubled relationship is pushed to the edge.

A profound exploration of a family in crisis, Trondheim portrays the way each woman copes with the looming tragedy and the possibility of healing in the wake of a life-altering emergency.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Haïti

Roger Celestin – The Delicate Beast

Roger Celestin The Delicate Beast review, recensie en informatie roman van de op Haïti geboren Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 4 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de roman van de Haïtiaans-Amerikaanse schrijver Roger Celestin. 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.

Roger Celestin The Delicate Beast review, recensie en informatie

  • “From the novel’s lush opening, set in the ‘Tropical Republic,’ to countries and cities well beyond its frontiers, Roger Celestin’s voice echoes not only in a world of pain and violence, but also in the beauty and miraculous weapon of literature.” (Maryse Condé, Franse schrijfster)

Roger Celestin The Delicate Beast

The Delicate Beast

  • Auteur: Roger Celestin (Haïti, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel

Flaptekst van de roman van Roger Celestin

In the 1950s Tropical Republic, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital, enjoying leisurely Sunday lunches around the family compound’s swimming pool. That is, until the reign of The Mortician begins, unleashing unimaginable horrors that bring his childhood idyll to an end. Narrowly escaping the violent fate visited on so many of his fellow citizens, he and his brother follow their parents into exile in the United States where they must start a new life. But as he grows, he never feels at home, and leaves his family to travel across Europe and outrun the ghosts of the past.

A searing novel of a life lived in the shadow of history, The Delicate Beast portrays the persistent, pernicious legacy of political violence.

Roger Célestin was born in Haiti, emigrated to the United States at the age of eleven, and is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. The Delicate Beast is his first novel. He lives in Manhattan.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Verhalen

John Rolfe Gardiner – North of the Ordinary

John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review, recensie en informatie nieuw boek met verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press het nieuwe boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver John Rolfe Gardiner. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review en recensie

  • “What dazzling stories John Rolfe Gardiner writes. His characters, in the best way, are earthbound, caught in the web of work and school and family, past and present. Each story is a world, perfect and complete, and when I read the last one I marveled that so much wisdom and beauty could be contained in a single volume.” (Margot Livesey, schrijfster)

John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary

North of the Ordinary

  • Auteur: John Rolfe Gardiner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

John Rolfe Gardiner North of the Ordinary review en recensie

  • “What dazzling stories John Rolfe Gardiner writes. His characters, in the best way, are earthbound, caught in the web of work and school and family, past and present. Each story is a world, perfect and complete, and when I read the last one I marveled that so much wisdom and beauty could be contained in a single volume.” (Margot Livesey, schrijfster)

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van John Rolfe Gardiner

“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”

So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardner’s virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a shifting world. In these pages, we meet a nervous young apprentice to a weathered tree climber; a dangerously obsessed student at a Southern Bible college; an attractive schemer trying to build an audience for her tiny radio station; an undercover, cross-dressing lawman whose friendship changes the life of a deaf child in a suburban cul-de-sac; and an elderly Black mason whose knowledge of the town’s history harbors truths that shake his visitor’s foundation.

Surprising, touching, and deeply humane, the ten stories of North of Ordinary offer an intimate, revelatory look at our fractured society and pull us together through the power of art.

North of Ordinary is introduced by Christopher Benfey and illustrated by Maria Nicklin.

John Rolfe Gardiner was born on 20 November 1936 in New York and grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia during World War II. Recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers Award and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the author of six novels and four collections of short fiction, including North of Ordinary. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, American Scholar, Oxford American, One Story, Pushcart Prize anthology, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Gardiner lives in Middleburg, Virginia, with his wife, ceramic artist Joan Gardiner.

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