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IJsland, IJslandse roman, IJslandse schrijfster

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir – Magma

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir Magma recensie en informatie roman uit IJsland. Op 8 juli 2021 verschijnt op 13 juli 2021 bij uitgeverij Grove Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Kvika van de IJslandse schrijfster Thora Hjörleifsdóttir.

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir Magma recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Magma. Het boek is geschreven door Thora Hjörleifsdóttir. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie vinden over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de IJslandse schrijfster Thora Hjörleifsdóttir.

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir Magma Recensie roman uit IJsland

Magma

  • Schrijfster: Thora Hjörleifsdóttir (IJsland)
  • Soort boek: IJslandse roman
  • Origineel: Kvika (2019)
  • Engelse vertaling: Meg Matich
  • Uitgever: Grove Press / Picador
  • Verschijnt: 13 juli 2021
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst roman van de IJslandse schrijfster Thora Hjörleifsdóttir

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. She becomes smitten with an older, handsome university student who reads Latin, quotes philosophy and cooks balanced, vegetarian meals. In no time, she moves into his cramped flat. Seduced by the newfound intimacy of a shared bed and showers, and fuelled by the desire to please her partner, she doesn’t realize when his quiet and pervasive manipulations start to unravel her.

His acts of imperceptible abuse continue to mount as their relationship develops. Desperate to rationalize his behaviour and be the perfect lover, Lilja gradually permits him to cross all boundaries, unable to break free from the toxic cycle. And then an unexpected ultimatum: an all-consuming love, or the promise of a life reclaimed.

Urgent and visceral, Thora Hjörleifsdóttir explores the darkest corners of relationships, exposing the commonplace undercurrents of violence that often go undetected. In an era of growing pornification, she deftly illustrates the failings of our culture to recognize symptoms of cruelty. In gripping, poetic prose, Magma depicts the unspooling of a tender-hearted young woman aching to love and be loved.

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Familieroman, India, Indiase schrijver

Perumal Murugan – The Story of a Goat

Perumal Murugan The Story of a Goat recensie en informatie van deze familieroman uit India. Op 10 december 2019 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Black Cat de nieuwe roman van de Indiase schrijver Perumal Murugan.

Perumal Murugan The Story of a Goat Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van The Story of a Goat, de nieuwe roman van Perumal Murugan. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van de Indiase schrijver Perumal Murugan.

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The Story of a Goat

  • Schrijver: Perumal Murugan (India)
  • Soort boek: familieroman, Indiase roman, sociale roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Grove Press Black Cat
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2019
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Perumal Murugan

As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, in his newest novel, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands.

s the novel opens, a farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous for such a small animal. Intoxicating passages from the goat’s perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of what it means to be an animal and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi’s life is not destined to be a rural idyll―dangers can lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world?

With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and color, The Story of the Goat is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller who is finally achieving recognition outside his home country.

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IJsland, IJslandse roman

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir – Miss Iceland

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Miss Iceland recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze roman uit IJsland. Op 16 juni 2020 verschijnt 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Grove Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Ungfrú Ísland van de IJslandse schrijfster Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Miss Iceland Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Miss Iceland, de nieuwe roman van Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van de IJslandse schrijfster Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.

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Miss Iceland

  • Schrijfster: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (IJsland)
  • Soort boek: IJslandse roman
  • Origineel: Ungfrú Ísland (2018)
  • Engelse vertaling:
  • Uitgever: Grove Press, Black Cat
  • Verschijnt: 16 juni 2020
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dalir. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, she heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. There, she intends to become a writer. Sharing an apartment with her childhood and queer friend Jón John, Hekla comes to learn that she will have to stand alone in a small male dominated community that would rather see her win a pageant than be a professional artist. As the two friends find themselves increasingly on the outside, their bond shapes and strengthens them artistically in the most moving of ways.

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