Tag archieven: Europa Editions

Italiaanse schrijfster, Italiaanse schrijver, Verhalen

The Passenger Naples

The Passenger Naples recensie en informatie boek met verhalen over de Italiaanse stad Napels. Op 25 september 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Europa Edtions het boek met verhalen van Italiaanse schrijvers en schrijfster over de stad Napels. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de verhalen, de auteurs en de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

The Passenger Naples recensie en informatie

  • “These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.” (The Times Literary Supplement)
  • “A wonderful publication and a beautiful object. The Passenger is a pleasure to read, to hold, and to look at.” (La Republica)
  • “When you hold it your hands, The Passenger takes you back to another time, one when travel literature had a scent, and texture.” (El Pais)

The Passenger Naples

The Passenger Naples

  • Auteurs: Diverse auteurs (Italië)
  • Soort boek: verhalen over de stad Napels
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 25 oktober 20204
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen over Napels

In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all.  As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where to look for the ordinary, the average? Maybe we need to “go up” to Vomero, a neighborhood considered almost alien to the city, middle class, homogeneous, peaceful? A reality in sharp contrast with the over-the-top life of the historic centre, crossed as it is by a thousand stratifications – architectural, historical and social. And yet even there we find an alternative reading: the city as a model of coexistence between ancient and modern.

While some areas have been waiting for decades for much promised redevelopment, others have benefited from cutting-edge projects with far-reaching positive impact, representing a Naples that attracts talent, exports models, and colonizes instead of being colonized.

  • Paolo Macry on Naples’ monarch mayors
  • Francesco Abazia on the influence of the US Army’s presence on Neapolitan popular music
  • Cristina Napolitano on the Neapolitan diaspora, and what it means to come back
  • Gianni Montieri on the city’s passion for football
  • Alessandra Coppola on the cult of the young victims of the Camorra, or the police

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Braziliaanse roman, Braziliaanse schrijfster, Brazilië

Giovanna Madalosso – The Tokyo Suite

Giovanna Madalosso The Tokyo Suite recensie, review en informatie over de roman van de Braziliaanse schrijfster. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman Suíte Tóquiovan de uit Brazilie afkomstige schrijfster Giovanna Madalosso. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de Braziliaanse roman, de schrijfster, de vertaalster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Giovanna Madalosso The Tokyo Suite recensie, review en informatie

  • “Giovana Madalosso follows in the path of Rachel Cusk and Olga Tokarczuk, taking her characters to the brink with brutal honesty.” (Suplemento Pernambuco)
  • “Giovana Madalosso’s writing is fluid, creative, elegant, and powerful. This is a compelling story about motherhood, featuring two unforgettable protagonists navigating complex personal and societal challenges.” (Mãe Literatura)

Giovanna Madalosso The Tokyo Suite

The Tokyo Suite

  • Auteur: Giovanna Madalosso (Brazilië)
  • Soort boek: Braziliaanse roman
  • Origineel: Suíte Tóquio (2019)
  • Engelse vertaling: Bruna Dantas Lobato
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Braziliaanse schrijfster Giovanna Madalosso

The English-language debut of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, The Tokyo Suite is a gripping exploration of the complexities of modern family dynamics and the tensions hiding just under the surface of ordinary lives.

It’s a seemingly ordinary morning when Maju, a nanny, boards a bus with Cora, the young girl she’s been caring for, and disappears. The abduction, an act as impulsive as it is extreme, sets off a series of events that will force each character to confront their deepest fears and desires.

Fernanda, Cora’s mother, is a successful executive who is so engulfed in her own personal crisis that she initially fails to notice her daughter’s disappearance. Her marriage is strained, and she finds solace in an affair, distancing herself further from her family. Meanwhile, her husband, overwhelmed by the complexities of their domestic life, remains emotionally detached. As Maju navigates the streets of São Paulo with Cora, the “white army” of nannies, a term coined by Fernanda, seems to watch her every move, heightening her sense of paranoia and urgency.

Madalosso’s narrative delves deep into the human psyche, examining themes of maternal guilt, societal expectations, and the search for personal identity. Rich and multi-layered, The Tokyo Suite is a poignant and gripping tale that captures the essence of modern urban life and the lengths to which people will go to reclaim a sense of control and meaning in their lives.

Giovana Madalosso (Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil) is a Brazilian writer and screenwriter, born in Curitiba in 1975. She has been a finalist for the Biblioteca Nacional Award and the São Paulo Prize of Literature. The Tokyo Suite is her English-language debut.

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Tunesië, Tunesische roman, Tunesische schrijfster

Amira Ghenim – A Calamity of Noble Houses

Amira Ghenim A Calamity of Noble Houses recensie, review en informatie roman van de Tunesische schrijfster. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman uit 2020 van de uit Tunesië afkomstige schrijfster Amira Ghenim. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster, de vertaalster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de Tunessche roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Amira Ghenim A Calamity of Noble Houses recensie, review en informatie

  • “An enthralling exploration of the complexities of Tunisian society, and a gripping family saga that captures the spirit of a nation poised between tradition and modernity.” (Corriere della Sera)
  • “A mesmerizing kaleidoscope of a novel.” (La Repubblica)

Amira Ghenim A Calamity of Noble Houses

A Calamity of Noble Houses

  • Auteur: Amira Ghenim (Tunesië)
  • Soort boek: Tunesische roman uit 2020
  • Engelse vertaling: Miled Faiza, Karen McNeil
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Tunesische schrijfster Amira Ghenim

A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that illuminates the lives of women in modern Tunisia.

Tunisia, 1930s. Against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, in search of its identity, the lives and destinies of the members of two important upper-class families of Tunis intertwine: the Ennaifer family, with a rigidly conservative and patriarchal mentality, and the Rassaa, open-minded and progressive.

One terrible night in December 1935, the destiny of both families changes forever when Zbaida Ali Rassaa, the young wife of Mohsen Ennaifer, is accused of having had a clandestine love affair with Tahar Haddad, an intellectual of humble origins known for his union activism and support for women’s rights. The events of that fateful night are told by eleven different narrators, members of the two families, who recall them in different historical moments, from the 1940s to the present day. The result is a complex mosaic of secrets, memories, accusations, regrets, and emotions, taking the reader on an exciting journey through the stories of individuals caught up in the upheavals of history.

Amira Ghenim (178, Sousse, Tunesia) is a Tunisian writer and academic, born in 1978. She teaches Linguistics and Translation at Tunis University.  Her novel The Yellow Dossier won the 2020 Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamad Prize. A Calamity of Noble Houses was published in 2020.

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Zuid-Afrika, Zuid-Afrikaanse roman, Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver

S.J. Naudé – Fathers and Fugitives

S.J. Naudé Fathers and Fugitives recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de roman van de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de Engelse vertaling van de Afrikaanse roman van de uit Zuid-Afrika afkomstige schrijver en advocaat S.J. Naudé. 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 niet verkijgbaar.

S.J. Naudé Fathers and Fugitives recensie, review en informatie

  • “A novel of stylized dislocation… Decades pass in this novel, settings shift from England to Japan to the South African bush, and characters appear and tragically die, yet the pitch of the writing never rises above a murmur…this is a work of hypnotic, self-annihilating prose.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “In a certain sense the novel can be read as a contemporary Disgrace, but it’s far subtler and more nuanced. It is a masterpiece that avoids judgements and conclusions, that simply states and yet grabs hold of the heart. It leaves me breathless with admiration. What a world-class author we have in this double Hertzog Prize winner. We will keep our eyes fixed on the horizon.” (Deborah Steinmar, Vrye Weekblad)
  • “Cool and intelligent, unsettling and deeply felt, Naudé’s voice is something new in South African writing.” (Damon Galgut, Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver)

S.J. Naudé Fathers and Fugitives

Fathers and Fugitives

  • Auteur: S.J. Naudé (Zuid-Afrika)
  • Soort boek: Zuid-Afrikaanse roman
  • Engelse vertaling: Michiel Heyns
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen >

Flaptekst van de roman van de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver S.J. Naudé

An inventive and emotionally charged novel about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging.

Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father’s death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man’s will: he will only inherit his half of his father’s considerable estate once he has spent time with Theon, a cousin whom he hasn’t seen since they were boys, who lives on the old family farm in the Free State. Once there, Daniel discovers that the young son of the woman Theon lives with is seriously ill. With the conditions bearing on Daniel’s inheritance shifting in real time, Theon and Daniel travel with the boy to Japan for an experimental cure and a voyage that will change their lives forever.

S.J. Naudé’s masterful novel is many things at once: a literary page-turner full of vivid, unexpected characters and surprising twists; a loving and at times shockingly raw portrayal of its protagonist’s complex psyche; and a devastatingly subtle look into South Africa’s fraught recent history.

S.J. Naudé (1970, Pretoria, South Africa) is the author of two collections of short stories and two novels. He is the winner of the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, and the kykNet-Rapport prize, and is the only writer to win the Hertzog Prize twice consecutively in its 100-year history. His first novel, The Third Reel, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times prize. His work has been published in Granta and other journals in the US, UK, the Netherlands, and Italy.

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Memoir, Palestijnse schrijfster, Palestina

Asmaa Alghoul & Selim Nassib – A Rebel in Gaza

Asmaa Alghoul & Selim Nassib A Rebel in Gaza recensie, review en informatie memoir uit Rafah in Palestina. Op 20 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Europa editions de Engelse vertaling van de memoir uit Gaza van Asmaa Alghoul. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Asmaa Alghoul & Selim Nassib A Rebel in Gaza recensie, review en informatie

  • “A Rebel in Gaza is a love letter to an unloved place… a sparkling memoir… Asmaa Alghoul, who was born in the Rafah refugee camp at the southern end of the Strip, writes with clarity and tenderness of [Gaza’s harsh] realities… Despite it all, she insists: ‘People continued to laugh in Gaza.’ Her own laughter bubbles through the pages of A Rebel in Gaza: a stubborn, defiant joy in living, as keen as her rage or her grief… The world would be poorer without Alghoul’s voice, without her warmth, her fury and her laughter.” (Ben Ehrenreich, The Guardian)
  • “Alghoul dares to build bridges, to pierce through propaganda, stereotypes, and bigotry, and to provide multicolored snapshots of a conflict that’s too often presented in superficial black-and-white sketches. Her stunning book celebrates women’s role in resisting hatred, in affirming life while oppressive patriarchal regimes perpetuate war and death. It’s a powerful self-portrait of a woman who refuses to cave, who, in fact, chooses to put on a ruby-colored dress and stand out from the crowd: a rebel from Gaza and for a more just world.” (Women’s Review of Books)

Asmaa Alghoul Selim Nassib A Rebel in Gaza

A Rebel in Gaza

A Daughter of Rafah Speaks

  • Schrijfster: Asmaa Alghoul (Palestina)
  • Coauteur: Selim Nassib
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Engelse vertaling: Mike Mitchell
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 20 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir uit Gaza van Asmaa Alghoul

Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has continued to speak her truth. She has continued to live and to love, to laugh and to protest. In this moving memoir of growing up Gaza with a hunger for freedom and a passionate attachment to the places she calls home, journalist, writer, and activist, Alghoul recounts her lifelong resistance to religious fanaticism, state sponsored violence, and all forms of repression and subjugation. Alghoul has been called “too strong minded,” criticized for not covering her hair, derided for ignoring warnings and speaking out against injustice. Her pure, clarion voice is raised wholly in support of dialogue, peace, love, and honesty.

Nothing, it seems, can stop her.

Offering an intimate look into life, politics, and survival in Gaza in recent years, Alghoul’s A Rebel in Gaza offers readers a nuanced and singular perspective on the current conflict.

Asmaa Alghoul was born in 1982 in Rafah, in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. A regular contributor to Al-Monitor, an information site that deals with news from the Middle East, she currently lives in France where she is writing her next book. She has won numerous international awards, including the Human Rights Watch Hellman / Hammett Award, the Dubai Press Club prize for journalism, and the International Women’s Media Foundation Journalism Award.

Sélim Nassib was born in Beirut in 1946 and currently lives in Paris. Throughout the 1980s, during the war in Lebanon, he served as a correspondent for the French newspaper Liberation. He is also well known for his articles appearing in other high-profile periodicals. In 1990, he put an end to his career as journalist and has since dedicated himself full-time to literature. He is the author of The Palestinian Lover (Europa Editions, 2007) and I Loved You for Your Voice (Europa Editions, 2006).

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Shannon Bowring – Where the Forest Meets the River

Shannon Bowring Where the Forest Meets the River recensie, review en informatie van de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Op 3 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Europa Editions de roman van de uit de Amerikaanse schrijfster Shannon Bowring. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Shannon Bowring Where the Forest Meets the River recensie en review

  • “Bowring brilliantly evokes people’s inner lives through small, illuminating moments, not unlike Sherwood Anderson, and fills the novel with thoughtful and comic one-liners that ring true. . . A moving portrait of the ways people survive palpable, harrowing grief.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Quotidian, yes: boring, no. Bowering weaves them together in their new aspects, giving hints of future possibilities in book three.” (Lavender Magazine)

Shannon Bowring Where the Forest Meets the River

Where the Forest Meets the River

  • Auteur: Shannon Bowring (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 3 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Shannon Bowring

Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America.

It’s been five years since Bridget Theroux’s death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young child. Nate doesn’t always know how to answer her questions, but he is intent on raising her with joy–and shielding her from her grandmother, Annette, who remains dangerously locked away in her grief.

After his first year away at college, Greg Fortin is back in town for the summer to work at the family store. It’s expected he’ll take over the hardware business eventually, but finding the words to tell them no–and the truth about who he is–has become his own Everest. Rose’s abusive ex, Tommy finally disappeared a few years ago, though sometimes his presence in the eyes of her oldest son unnerves her. She and Nate are finding themselves drawn together by their children’s playdates, and into a delicate balance between friendship and the possibility of more.

And Trudy and Bev, always so sure of their love for each other, find themselves rocked when Trudy’s husband Richard suffers a heart attack, bringing into focus all the guilt she has felt about their empty marriage for years.

Shannon Bowring demonstrates once again that she understands exactly where the heart of a story lies. Where the Forest Meets the River is a poignant return to the small town of Dalton, whose inhabitants continue to startle and humble both themselves–and us.

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Biografische roman, Historische Roman, Italiaanse roman, Italiaanse schrijver, Italië

Franco Bernini – The Throne roman over Niccolò Machiavelli

Franco Bernini The Throne roman over Niccolò Machiavelli recensie, review en informatie over het boek. Op 11 juni 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Europa Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman Il torno van de Italiaanse schrijver Franco Bernini. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Franco Bernini The Throne recensie en review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van de roman over Niccolò Machiavelli, The Throne, geschreven door Franco Bernini, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Names like ‘Borgia’ and ‘Machiavelli’ probably mean something to you. If I told you this was a story about manipulation and palace intrigue you’d be like… why yes! Right?? It’s also about the complicated relationship between a biographer and their subject, something kinda meta that historical fiction rarely delves into.” (Cosmopolitan)
  • “Well researched with wonderfully vivid details, Bernini presents Machiavelli in all the complications of a life spent navigating political waters, learning to say the right thing or nothing at all, and more importantly, learning how to write about it all…The ultimate power, then, resides in words and those who know how to use them. Borgia and his armies fade away, but Machiavelli’s books still belong on our shelves.” (New York Journal of Books)
  • “Bernini’s engrossing historical novel follows Machiavelli’s trajectory through the corridors of power in 16th-century Italy… As the relationship between the biographer and his subject evolves, each man relies on the other to achieve his political ambitions, yet only one will succeed.” (Washington Post)

Franco Bernini The Throne roman over Niccolò Machiavelli

The Throne

  • Auteur: Franco Bernini (Italië)
  • Soort boek: biografische roman, Italiaanse historische roman
  • Origineel: Il trono (2023)
  • Engelse vertaling: Oonagh Stransky
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 11 juni 2024
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek /paperback /  ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Niccolò Machiavelli van Franco Bernini

This meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of a planned trilogy, recounts the enigmatic life of Niccolò Machiavelli, revealing the complex man behind the infamous political strategist.

October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. But when Borgia asks Machiavelli to write his life story, their bond gains complexity and nuance: ultimately, they both aspire to everlasting fame and to achieve it, they need each other, for the one’s sword can only rule in eternity via the pen of the other.

Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, rife with political intrigue and cultural flourishing, Bernini’s richly imagined novel masterfully captures a society teetering on the brink of change and revolution, as one man takes his chance at greatness, navigating the treacherous corridors of power with guile and charisma.

The Throne is a captivating reflection on ambition, morality, and the pursuit of power and influence. The novel reveals one of the most impactful and controversial minds in political history, and questions and asks to what lengths can one justifiably go to achieve greatness.

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Verhalen

The Passenger: Mediterranean

The Passenger Mediterranean recensie en informatie. Op 12 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Europa Editions, The Passenger Mediterranean. Het is een nieuw deel in de indrukwekkende reeks verhalenbundels van en over de landen of steden waar de schrijvers en schrijfsters afkomstig zijn. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijvers en schrijfsters en over de uitgave.

The Passenger Mediterranean recensie en informatie

In de Engelstalige reeks The Passenger worden met regelmaat nieuwe bundels uitgegeven met verhalen van en over de landen of steden waar de schrijvers en schrijfsters afkomstig zijn. Het Middellandse Zeegebied, ook wel bekend als de Méditerranée is het gebied dat deze keer centraal staat. Je krijg je door het lezen van de verhalen een origineel, goed en bijzonder beeld van het Middellandse Zeegebied in al de rijke schakeringen, van Noord-Afrika, het Midden-Oosten tot Zuid-Europa.

The Passenger Mediterranean

The Passenger: Mediterranean

  • Auteurs: Diverse schrijvers en schrijfsters
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 12 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 22.00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen over de Méditerranée

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.

The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leïla Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt, plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the ceaseless hunt for tuna; the invention of the Mediterranean diet; and much more…

The word “Mediterranean” has always evoked something larger than geography. For millennia, it has designated a distinct cultural and historical space, one where different peoples have met, traded, and—not infrequently—clashed. Starting from its Latin etymology (“in the middle of the Earth”), the Mediterranean is intimately connected with ideas of connection, exchange, and multiplicity.

Today, however, the Mediterranean appears to be in crisis. Neglected by the European Union—which often sees North Africa and the Middle East as a threat, or at best as a source of energy—the Mediterranean is at the center of one of the greatest migrations in history. While every year hundreds of millions of vacationers flock to its shores, as in a distorting mirror hundreds of thousands of people face a dramatic journey in the opposite direction—to escape wars, persecutions, and poverty. The liquid road, as Homer called it, is increasingly militarized, trafficked, and polluted—as well as overheated and overfished.

This volume of The Passenger dives deep into the complex issues and contradictions facing the Mediterranean. As the book shows, despite its problems, the Mediterranean remains a source of wonder and fascination—a space not entirely colonized by modernity, where time flows differently, and where multiple cultures and languages are in closer contact and dialogue than elsewhere.

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Italiaanse schrijfster, Olympische Spelen, Sport

Andrea Marcolongo – The Art of Running

Andrea Marcolongo The Art of Running. Recensie en informatie over de inhoud van The Art of Running, Learning to Run Like a Greek, geschreven door de Italiaanse classicus en schrijfster Andrea Marcolongo dat op 4 april 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Europa Compass. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Alhoewel eerdere boeken van Andrea Macolongo in Nederlandse vertaling zijn verschenen, is het nog onduidelijk of dat met dit boek ook het geval zal zijn.

Andrea Marcolongo The Art of Running recensie

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van The Art of Running, Learning to Run Like a Greek, geschreven door de Italiaanse classicus en journaliste Andrea Marcolongo, kun je er hier over lezen.

Andrea Marcolongo boeken en informatie

Andrea Marcolongo is op 17 januari 1987 geboren in de stad Crema, niet ver van Milaan. Ze studeerde klassieke literatuur aan Università degli Studi di Milano. Ze werkte als speechschrijver voor de Italiaanse politicus en premier Matteo Renzi.

In 2016 publiceerde Andrea Marcolongo haar eerste boek, La lingua geniale (De geniale taal) dat een internationale bestseller werd. Ook haar tweede boek, La Misura Eroica (De heldenmaat) over de mythe van de Argonauten en de moed om lief te hebben werd een verkoopsucces. Haar nieuwste boek waarover je hier alles leest verschijnt in april 2024 in Engelse vertaling, of er ook een Nederlandse vertaling volgt is nog onbekend.

Andrea Marcolongo The Art of Running

The Art of Running

Learning to Run Like a Greek

  • Auteur: Andrea Marcolongo (Italië)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, sportboek
  • Engelse vertaling: Will Schutt
  • Uitgever: Europa Compass
  • Verschijnt: 2 april 2024
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18.00 / $ 12.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over hardlopen in de Griekse oudheid

The inspiring story of how one of Europe’s most original and compelling classicist learned to run—and live—like a Greek.

Much has changed since the day in 490 BCE when the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary run and delivered to the people of Athens news of their city’s victory over the Persians. One thing, however, hasn’t changed: it is still twenty-five punishing miles over rough terrain from Marathon to the Acropolis.

Each year, all over the world, thousands of professional athletes and millions of amateur enthusiasts replicate Philippides’s enterprise, many running with such gusto that one could be forgiven for thinking the fate of Athens once more hung in the balance.

Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, sweat, of testing one’s limits? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions and to wonder why we choose to measure ourselves in this way against others; they were the first to formulate the adage, mens sana in corpore sano; they were first to interrupt war, work, politics, the daily routine to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. The Greeks invented sport! Sport as something separate from labor or war; activity as an end unto itself and a form of entertainment for others. They were also the first to understand how regular physical activity, victory, and loss connected to our emotional and mental well-being.

As the pandemic entered its second year, despondent, isolated, and apprehensive about the future, the internationally renowned classics scholar and best-selling author Andrea Marcolongo discovered running. After years spent with her head and heart in the books, trying to think like a Greek, she set out to learn how to run like a Greek. In doing so, she not only deepened her understanding of the ancient civilization she has spent decades studying, but also discovered a great deal about herself.

In this spirited, generous, and erudite book, Andrea Marcolongo shares not only her erudition but her own journey to understanding that a healthy body is indeed, and in more ways than one might guess, a healthy mind.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Su Bristow – The Fair Folk

Su Bristow The Fair Folk. Op 23 januari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Europa Editions de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijfster Su Bristow. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Su Bristow The Fair Folk recensie

Ook is er aandacht voor de boekbesprekingen en recensie van de roman The Fair Folk, geschreven door Su Bristow.

  • “Lovers of classic folktales will appreciate this.”  (Publishers Weekly)
  • “A Faustian, modern-day fairy tale in which the ‘be careful what you wish for’ trope is updated with a tender bildungsroman…a heartbreaking reality about lost innocence, rendered poetic in Bristow’s quiet but moving words.” (Booklist)

Su Bristow boeken en informatie

Su Bristow is een Engelse schrijfster die een aantal non-fictie boeken heeft geschreven. Daarnaast verscheen in 2019 haar eerste roman Sealskin waarvoor ze de Exeter Novel Prize ontving. Haar tweede roman waarover je hier veel informatie kunt vinden, verschijnt in januari 2024. Geen van haar boeken zijn tot nu toe in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen.

Su Bristow The Fair Folk

The Fair Folk

  • Auteur: Su Bristow (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 23 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18.00 / $ 12.99
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Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijfster Su Bristow

From prize-winning author Su Bristow comes a fascinating coming-of-age novel about magic and the choices that define future generations.

It’s 1959. To eight-year-old Felicity—who lives on a dying farm in England—the fairies in the woods have much more to offer than the people in her everyday life. As she becomes more rooted in their world, she learns that their magic is far from safe. Their queen, Elfrida, offers Felicity a gift. But fairy bargains are never what they seem.

As an adult, Felicity leaves for university. Unfortunately, books are not her only company at school: Elfrida and Hobb—the queen’s constant companions—wield the ability to appear at any time, causing havoc in her new friendships and love life. Desperate, Felicity finally begins to explore the true nature of the Fair Folk and their magic. Her ally, the folklorist Professor Edgerley, asks, ‘What do they want from you?’ The answer lies in the distant past, and in the secrets of her own family.

As the consequences of the “gift” play out, Felicity must draw on her courage to confront Elfrida, and make the right choice. Interwoven with traditional stories and striking characters, The Fair Folk poses questions about how we care for our children, our land, and our love-hate relationship with what we desire most.

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