Laura Vinogradova The River recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Letland. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Open Letter Books de Engelse vertaling van de Upe van de Letse schrijfster Laura Vinogradova die er in 2021 de Europese Literatuurprijs voor ontving. 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.
Laura Vinogradova The River recensie, review en informatie
- “Laura Vinogradova . . . sets the reader-gently, but without dawdling-in a bend in the river where everything we don’t want to acknowledge comes floating to the surface.” (Newspaper Diena)
The River
- Auteur: Laura Vinogradova (Letland)
- Soort boek: Letse roman
- Engelse vertaling: Kaija Straumanis
- Origineel: Upe (2020)
- Uitgever: Open Letter Books
- Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
- Omvang: 140 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: € 15,95
- Winnaar Europese Literatuurprijs 2021
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Letse schrijfster Laura Vinogradova
“Sis, I want to tell you about the river. About me in the river. It makes me shiver, tremble. It makes me laugh. It’s been so long since I’ve felt this alive . . .”
Rute is no stranger to loss. As a child she and her older sister, Dina, were subject to their mother’s romantic whims, moving from house to house, boyfriend to boyfriend. Then, when the sisters were in their late twenties, Dina disappeared. In the decade that has since passed, Rute has become a husk of her former self, going through the motions in work, life, and love, composing daily letters to Dina in the hopes they’ll one day see each other again.
When the sisters’ biological father, Jūle, dies, Rute unexpectedly inherits his country property. Curious about this man she’s never really known, she takes the opportunity to flee the city, the people, herself. But once in the countryside she meets Matilde, the young, single mother from next door who (along with her brother Kristof) was practically raised by Jūle. Rute learns about Jūle, a generous soul whose door and heart were always open to those less fortunate.
Haunting, sparse, and echoing Scandinavian greats like Kjersti Skomsvold, Laura Vinogradova’s The River is a tightly crafted work that defies resolutions and endings, instead hailing the importance and beauty of the personal journey to one’s internal truths and external freedoms.
Laura Vinogradova werd in 1984 in Letland geboren. Ze is de auteur van een kinderboek en twee verhalenbundels. De rivier (Upe) is haar eerste roman en stond op de shortlist voor de Letse Literatuurprijs 2020 en ontving in 2021 een EU-literatuurprijs.