Kallia Papadaki Dendrites recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Griekse roman. Opp 3 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij World Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman Δενδρίτες / Dendrites uit 2015 van de uit Griekenland afkomstige schrijfster Kallia Papadaki. The novel won the EU Prize for Literature in 2017. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Kallia Papadaki Dendrites recensie, review en informatie
- “The winner of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature vindicates the multiplicity of female voices in European literature, who are often silenced by a lack of translation into other EU languages.” (Vogue)
- “In living organisms, the word dendrites refers to the branches of nerve cells. Here, the reference is to branching. Kind of like the novel were a tree of which the twenty chapters were the branches, tirelessly described, with the precision of a sociologist, by a novelist who is as much a scenarist and who thinks in terms of cinematographic images.” (Le Soir)
Dendrites
- Auteur: Kallia Papadaki (Griekenland)
- Soort boek: Griekse roman
- Origineel: Δενδρίτες / Dendrites (2015)
- Engelse vertaling: Karen Emmerich
- Uitgever: World Editions
- Verschijnt: 3 september 2024
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: € 21,99 / € 10,99
- Winnaar EU Prize for Literature 2017
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Griekse schrijfster Kallia Papadaki
The fortunes of a Greek immigrant family striving to realize the American dream.
When young Minnie is orphaned, the Campanis family decides to take her in. Ex-hippie Susan and her husband Basil, a second-generation Greek American, along with their daughter Leto react to Minnie’s arrival in ways that make old family scars flare up again. Set in crisis-ridden 1980s Camden, New Jersey, among a community of immigrants trying and failing to realize the American dream,
Dendrites is a poetical elegy to dignity and courage. In this sensitively told story about the quest for a meaningful life amid the ruins of lost second chances.
Kallia Papadaki, one of Greek literature’s most brilliant voices, delivers an unforgettable novel about the power of hope and compassion in the face of adversity.
Kallia Papadaki was born in in 1978 in Didymoteicho, Greece, and grew up in Thessaloniki. She works as a professional screenwriter. Her critically acclaimed short-story collection Ο ήχος του ακάλυπτου “The Back-Lot Sound” won the Diavazo Journal New Writers Award. September, her first feature-length script, won the 2010 International Balkan Fund Script Development Award, received the Nipkow Scholarship in Berlin, and premiered at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Dendrites, her first novel, was awarded the EU Prize for Literature, shortlisted for the Anagnostis Best Novel Award, and won the Clepsidra Best Young Author Prize.