Tag archieven: Other Press

Turkije, Turkse roman, Turkse schrijvers

Suat Dervis – The Prisoner of Ankara

Suat Dervis The Prisoner of Ankara review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Turkse roman uit 1957. Op 17 december 2024 verschijnt bij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Ankara Mahpusu van de uit Turkije afkomstige schrijfster Suat Derviş. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster, de vertaalster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Suat Dervis The Prisoner of Ankara review, recensie en informatie

  • “Set in the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire, The Prisoner of Ankara is a vivid and evocative novel, reminiscent of Dostoevsky, that brings to life the despair of prison and poverty, the sorrow of loving an illusion, and the hope that exists in humanity’s compassion for each other, despite it all.” (Jamila Ahmed, Pakistaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster)
  • “After twelve years in prison, Vasfi finds that his release does not necessarily grant him his freedom. In this timeless novel, Suat Derviş masterfully examines the relationship between freedom and dignity, and the remnants of possibility left for those, alone and abandoned, on the margins of society. Heartbreaking, tender, and threaded through with hope.” (İnci Atrek)

Suat Dervis The Prisoner of Ankara

The Prisoner of Ankara

  • Auteur: Suat Derviş (Turkije)
  • Soort boek: Turkse roman
  • Origineel: Ankara Mahpusu (1957)
  • Engelse vertaling: Maureen Freely
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 december 2024
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Turkse schrijfster Suat Dervis

An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English.

Dreaming of a better life for her son, Vasfi’s mother encourages him to attend medical school, so he can become a great doctor. But Vasfi’s infatuation with the beguiling Zeynep, and his fiery temper, destroy this promising future in a night: Quarreling over Zeynep, he kills his cousin in a drunken brawl, and spends the next 12 years in prison.

After his release, he struggles to get by in a world that has moved on without him. He hardly recognizes Zeynep, now a bitter, tightfisted shop owner. Homeless and unable to find work in Ankara or Istanbul, he relies on the kindness of others: an old woman who offers him shelter, because he reminds her of her lost son; a friend from prison who secures him a job as a construction worker.

In this tragic yet vibrant portrait of a life derailed, Suat Derviş offers an insightful, deeply humane perspective on the margins of society.

Suat Derviş was born in Istanbul in 1905 is one of the leading female authors of Turkish literature. She was educated in Germany, Suat Dervis Turkse schrijfsterwhere she wrote articles for newspapers and journals. After the rise of fascism, she returned to Turkey in 1932. She became renowned for her novels, which were serialized in Turkish newspapers and often centered around the tragic lives of lost, lonely, and struggling people in urban Turkey. In 1941 she began publishing Yeni Edebiyat (“New Literature”), a biweekly magazine on art and literature. A dedicated socialist, she was placed under house arrest for a short period of time following the publication of her book Why Do I Admire Soviet Russia. After her release, and a change of government in Turkey, she voluntarily exiled herself from 1953 to 1963. With the publication of The Prisoner of Ankara in 1957, she became the first female Turkish author to publish a novel in Europe. The novel received critical acclaim from Le Monde and the literary periodical Les Lettres Françaises, and was published in Turkish eleven years later. She died in Istanbul 23 July 1972. Her novel In the Shadow of the Yalı was published by Other Press in 2021.

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Griekenland, Memoir, Zweedse schrijver

Theodor Kallifatides – Mothers and Sons

Theodor Kallifatides Mothers and Sons recensie, review en informatie van de memoir van de in Griekenland geboren Zweedse schrijver. Op 10 december 2024 verschijnt bij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van Mödrar och söner de memoir uit 2007 van de uit Zweden afkomstige schrijver Theodor Kallifatides. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Theodor Kallifatides Mothers and Sons recensie, review en informatie

  • “In this poetic account, Greek novelist Kallifatides…spins a weeklong visit with his elderly mother into a moving reflection on legacy…a stunning ode to mother and motherland alike.” (Publshers Weekly)
  • “Charming…Kallifatides has a novelist’s ear for anecdote, a dramatist’s for dialogue, and a poet’s for aphorism.” (Times Literay Supplement over Another Life)
  • “In his elegiac, tender meditation on migrations, both geographic and psychic—from one country to another, from one language to another, from youth to old age, from the time of the present to memories of the past—Kallifatides offers his reader a personal politics of the human.” (Siri Hustvedt over Another Life)

Theodor Kallifatides Mothers and Sons

Mothers and Sons

  • Auteur: Theodor Kallifatides (Zweden)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Origineel: Mödrar och söner (2007)
  • Engelse vertaling: Marlaine Delargy
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2024
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van de in Griekenland geboren Zweedse schrijver Theodor Kallifatides

An aging writer’s love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family’s history in Greece and in exile.

Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides in Athens. Both know that this may be one of their last encounters before her death. During the week they spend together, they reminisce about the most important things in their lives, including the presence and absence of Theodor’s father, whose life story he is reading. There, his father explains his difficult journey, from his origins as a Greek exile in Turkey through his months in a Nazi prison, and his passion for teaching.

All this reveals the history of a family through the 20th century. But Kallifatides’s book is above all a wonderful tribute to the love of his mother, depicted in an unforgettable way, while conveying a universal truth about the importance of our mothers.

Theodor Kallifatides is geboren op 12 maart 1938 in Molai, Peloponnesos in Griekenland. Hij heeft meer dan veertig werken van fictie, non-fictie en poëzie gepubliceerd, die wereldwijd zijn vertaald. Geboren in Griekenland in 1938, emigreerde Kallifatides in 1964 naar Zweden, waar hij zijn literaire carrière begon. Als vertaler heeft hij August Strindberg en Ingmar Bergman voor Griekse lezers toegankelijk gemaakt, en Giannis Ritsos en Mikis Theodorakis voor Zweedse lezers. Hij heeft talloze prijzen ontvangen voor zijn werk in zowel Griekenland als Zweden. Another Life (Other Press, 2018) en de roman The Siege of Troy (Other Press, 2019) zijn andere boeken van zijn hand die in het Engelse vertaling verkrijgbaar zijn. Hij woont in Zweden.

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Spaanse roman, Spaanse schrijver, Spanje

Miguel Ángel Hernández – Anoxia

Miguel Ángel Hernández Anoxia recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Spaanse roman. Op 4 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Orher Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman uit 2023 van de uit Spanje afkomstige schrijver Miguel Ángel Hernández. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Miguel Ángel Hernández Anoxia recensie en informatie

  • “The macabre and stimulating story of a woman drawn into the world of mortuary photography…Dolores’s uncanny feelings build as her town is plagued by floods, giving this exploration of grief a gravitas that edges on the gothic, even as Hernández’s style remains sober and satisfyingly understated. This will linger in readers’ minds.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Hernández has achieved the perfect equilibrium…The tradition of mortuary photography drives a mysterious plot that flirts with the thriller, though the greatest value lies in the subtlety with which Hernández tackles the emotional consequences of grief.” (El Cultural)

Miguel Ángel Hernández Anoxia

Anoxia

  • Auteur: Miguel Ángel Hernández (Spanje)
  • Soort boek: Spaanse roman
  • Origineel: Anoxia (2023)
  • Engelse vertaling: Adrian Nathan West
  • Uitgever: Orher Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Spaanse schrijver Miguel Ángel Hernández

In this mesmerizing psychological novel, a strange job leads a widowed photographer down a rabbit hole where the line between past and present, and the living and the dead blurs.

What is our relationship with the dead? How do we remember them? What dark secrets do our images of them hold? How do we emerge from grief to face the time we have left?

Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Dolores Ayala, owner of an old photography studio that has run out of clients, receives the most unusual assignment of her career: to take a portrait of a deceased person on the day of his funeral. Accepting it leads her to meet Clemente Artés, an eccentric old man obsessed with recovering the ancient tradition of photographing the dead. Under his guidance, Dolores will explore this forgotten practice, experience the slow time of the daguerreotype, and our need for images to remember those who are no longer there. She will also discover that some of them hold dark secrets that should never be revealed and, above all, that the dead never cease to move and sometimes pounce on the memory of the living.

Miguel Ángel Hernández has written a subtle, dazzling novel about the borders between life and death, about memory and guilt, about the past that stays with us and our constant search for air to breathe.

Miguel Ángel Hernández is born in 1977 in Murcia, Spain. He is a Spanish writer best known for his works of fiction, among them the novels Intento de escapada (2013), which won the Premio Ciudad Alcalá de Narrativa and was translated into five languages, El instante de peligro (2015), which was a finalist for the Premio Herralde de Novela, and El dolor de los demás (2018), which was selected as a book of the year by El País and the New York Times en Español. Hernández teaches art history at the University of Murcia and has authored several books on art and visual culture.

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Libanese roman, Libanese schrijvers, Libanon

Charif Majdalani – A History of the Big House

Charif Majdalani A History of the Big House review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Libanese roman. Op 17 december 2024 verschijnt bij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van Histoire de la grande maison de roman uit 2005 van de uit Libanon afkomstige schrijver Charif Majdalani. 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 verkrijgbaar.

Charif Majdalani A History of the Big House review, recensie en informatie

  • “This is what happens when poets write history; Majdalani weaves facts and dreams, the lives of men and nations, real and imagined, the smell of orange trees, of strong, black coffee on a Levantine morning—you can almost taste it. I could see that big house; I recognized it. This book took me home.” (Yara Zgheib, Libanese schrijver)
  • “Deliberately paced and carefully written: a memorable evocation of a distant but not irrecoverable time.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Majdalani’s novels are much praised in the Francophone world, and with good reason. His seductive prose twists and turns…gracefully drawing on Arabic storytelling traditions while offering a modern narrative crackling with razor-sharp humor.” (New York Times Book Review)
  • “Majdalani immerses the reader in a tinted world of djellabas, caravans, daggers, banquets, and palanquins…[He] renders the complex social landscape of the Middle East and North Africa with subtlety and finesse.” (Wall Street Journal)

Charif Majdalani A History of the Big House

A History of the Big House

  • Auteur: Charif Majdalani (Libanon)
  • Soort boek: Libanese roman
  • Origineel: Histoire de la grande maison (2005)
  • Engelse vertaling: Ruth Diver
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 december 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Libanese schrijver Charif Majdalani

This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate.

At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar will create orange plantations on the outskirts of Beirut and become the head of a large clan, feared and respected. The great house he builds at their center will become a powerful symbol of the Nassars’ glory, admired from afar. But this decadence is short-lived, battered by the First World War, illness, family tragedy, and the shifting regimes that control Lebanon. As circumstances compel Wakim’s descendants, one by one, to leave the house, it falls into ruin.

A rich, sweeping tale full of unforgettable characters and anchored in historical fact, A History of the Big House captures the unique experience of the Lebanese people through this family’s triumphs and struggles.

Charif Majdalani was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1960 and is one of the most important figures in Lebanese literature today. After living in France for thirteen years, he returned to Lebanon in 1993 and now teaches French literature at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. His novel Moving the Palace won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française as well as the Prix Tropiques. His previous book Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse was published by Other Press in 2021.

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Canada, Canadese roman, Canadese schrijvers, Libanese schrijvers, Libanon

Dimitri Nasrallah – Hotline

Dimitri Nasrallah Hotline recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Canadees-Libanese schrijver. Op 27 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Other Press de roman van de in Libanon geboren en naar Canada geëmigreerde schrijver Dimitri Nasrallah. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Dimitri Nasrallah Hotline recensie, review en informatie

  • “A heartwarming story…It’s the interiority of the mother that really makes the novel shine…We so often ascribe masculine qualities to bravery and survival. The courage it takes to build a simple life as a single mother all alone in a new world, is revealed to be delicate and feminine and caring and sweet.” (Heather O’Neill, author of When We Lost Out Heads)

Dimitri Nasrallah Hotline

Hotline

  • Auteur: Dimitri Nasrallah (Libanon, Canada)
  • Soort boek: Canadese roman, Libanese roman
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 27 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 16,99 / $ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Dimitri Nasrallah

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.

It’s 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec trusts her to teach the language. She needs to start making money, and fast. The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center as a hotline operator.

All day, she takes calls from people responding to ads seen in magazines or on TV. On the phone, she’s Mona, and she’s quite good at listening. These strangers all have so much to say once someone shows interest in them—marriages gone bad, parents dying, isolation, personal inadequacies. Even as her daily life in Canada is filled with invisible barriers at every turn, at the office Muna is privy to her clients’ deepest secrets.

Dimitri Nasrallah has written a vivid elegy to the 1980s, the years he first moved to Canada, bringing the era’s systemic challenges into the current moment through this deeply endearing portrait of struggle, perseverance, and bonding.

Dimitri Nasrallah (1977, Libanon) is the author of four novels, including Hotline, a Canadian bestseller that was long-listed for the 2022 Giller Prize and was a 2023 finalist for Canada Reads. Nasrallah was born in Lebanon in 1977, during the country’s civil war, and moved to Canada in 1988. His previous books include The Bleeds (2018); Niko (2011), which won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction; and Blackbodying (2005), which won Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize. His books have also been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Nasrallah lives in Montreal, where he is the editor of Esplanade Books and teaches creative writing at Concordia University.

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Libanese schrijvers, Libanon

Tarek El-Ariss – Water on Fire

Tarek El-Ariss Water on Fire recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Libanese schrijver. Op 23 april 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Other Press Water on Fire, het boek met door de oorlog getekende jeugdherinneringen van de Libanese schrijver en professor Tarek El-Ariss. Hier lees je uitgebreide informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de memoir verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Tarek El-Ariss Water on Fire recensie

Zodra er een boekbespreking of recensie van Water on Fire, de memoir van Tarek El-Ariss in de media verschijnt, zal er op deze pagina aandacht aan besteed worden.

Tarek El-Ariss boeken en informatie

Tarek El-Ariss is in 1973 geboren in Beiroet, de hoofdstad van Libanon, tijdens de burgeroorlog die toen gaande was. Hij studeerde filosofie aan de American University of Beirut en Comparative Literature aan de Cornell University, in Ithaka in de Verenigde Staten. Tegenwoordig is hij James Wright Professor en Chair van de Middle Eastern Studies aan het Dartmouth College in Hanover, Verenigde Staten.

Inmiddels heeft Tarek El-Ariss een aantal veelal wetenschappelijk boeken geschreven op zijn onderzoeksterrein, waarvan geen enkele in Nederlandse vertaling is verschenen. Zijn nieuwste boek met jeugdherinnering aan zijn tijd in een door de burgeroorlog geteisterd Libanon en waarover je hier alles leest, verschijnt in april 2024.

Tarek El-Ariss Water on Fire

Water on Fire

A Memoir of War

  • Auteur: Tarek El-Ariss (Libanon)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 april 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $17.99 / $11.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van de Libanese schrijver Tarek El-Ariss

In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family’s fascinating history, coming to terms with trauma and desire.

Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated by the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90), continues with experiences of displacement in Europe and Africa, moves to northeastern American towns battered by lake-effect snow and economic woes, and ends in New York City on 9/11. A story of loss, but also of evolution, it models a kind of resilience inflected with humor, daring, and irreverence.

Alternating between his perspective as a child and as an adult, Tarek El-Ariss explores how we live with trauma, poignantly illustrating the profound impact of war on our perception of the world, our fears and longings. His memoir is at once historical and universal, intellectual and introspective, the outcome of a long and painful process of excavation that reveals internal turmoil and the predicament of conflict and separation. A contemporary “interpretation of dreams” dealing with monsters, invisible creatures, skin outbreaks, and the sea, it is a book about objects and elements, like water and fire, and about how encountering these elements triggers associations, connecting present and past, time and space.

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Griekenland, Griekse roman

Christos Chomenidis – Niki

Christos Chomenidis Niki recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Griekse roman. Op 16 augustus 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman van de Griekse schrijver Christos Chomenidis / Χρήστος Χωμενίδης. De Nederlandse vertaling verschijnt van de Griekse roman Νίκη verschijnt op 26 september 2023 bij uitgeverij Prometheus en heeft de gelijknamig titel Niki.

Christos Chomenidis Niki recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de Griekse roman Niki. Het boek is geschreven door Christos Chomenidis. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de uit Griekenland afkomstige auteur Christos Chomenidis.

Christos Chomenidis Niki recensie

Niki

  • Schrijver: Christos Chomenidis (Griekenland)
  • Soort boek: Griekse familieroman
  • Origineel: Νίκη (2014)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Hero Howerda
  • Uitgever: Prometheus
  • Verschijnt: 16 augustus 2023
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 25,00 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Griekse familieroman van Christos Chomenidis

Het leven van Niki, geboren in 1938 als dochter van een vooraanstaande Griekse communist, ligt voor haar eerste verjaardag al overhoop. Haar ouders zijn gearresteerd en samen met haar moeder wordt ze verbannen naar verschillende eilanden. Ze groeit op in Athene ten tijde van de Italiaanse en Duitse invasie, de Duitse bezetting en de burgeroorlog die daarop volgt, en moet daarna nog zeven jaar met haar ouders onderduiken in een buitenwijk van Athene.

Niki’s dogmatische ouders willen haar opvoeden als ideale communiste in plaats van als gewoon meisje, wat ten koste gaat van haar levensvreugde. Zal het haar lukken uit het keurslijf los te breken?

Niki is een opmerkelijke, ontroerende roman over het verlangen naar persoonlijke vrijheid van een modeldochter die zich ontwikkelt tot een vrouw met haar eigen leven. Tegelijk vertelt het ook de brute geschiedenis van Griekenland in de twintigste eeuw.

Christos Chomenidis (Athene, 3 augustus 1966) is een Griekse romanschrijver. Hij studeerde rechten aan de universiteit van Athene. Voor Niki ontving hij in 2021 de Prix du livre européen.

Christos Chomenidis Niki Griekse roman.

Niki

  • Schrijver: Christos Chomenidis (Griekenland)
  • Soort boek: Griekse familieroman
  • Origineel: Νίκη (2014)
  • Engelse vertaling: Patricia Felisa Barbeito
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 juni 2023
  • Omvang: 496 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Christos Chomenidis

A resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family’s extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.

Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of the Greek Communist Party, is swept up in turmoil before her first birthday: her parents are arrested, and she joins her mother in exile on an island near Santorini. Growing up, she experiences the Italian and German invasion, the Nazi occupation, and the civil war that came after, often caught between her socialist values and those of the right-wing establishment, to which half her relatives belong.

Through her memories and the stories of her family, with roots on both coasts of the Aegean Sea, Niki also tells the history of Greece and Asia Minor from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Her remarkable tales, full of humor and verve in spite of hardship, are populated by working-class heroes, privileged elites, daring revolutionaries, and free-spirited bohemians.

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Palestijnse schrijver, Palestina

Raja Shehadeh – We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Raja Shehadeh We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir. Op 28 maart 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Other Press het boek over de relatie tot zijn vader van de Palestijnse schrijver Raja Shehadeh. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Raja Shehadeh We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I recensie en informatie

Als het boek gelezen is door de redactie, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de memoir We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. Het boek is geschreven door Raja Shehadeh . Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van het autobiografische boek van de Palestijnse schrijver Raja Shehadeh.

Raja Shehadeh We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I recensie

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

A Palestinian Memoir

  • Schrijver: Raja Shehadeh (Palestina)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Other Books
  • Verschijnt: 28 maart 2023
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek 

Recensies en waardering voor het boek

  • “Profoundly personal as well as historically significant…In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi…a quiet and deeply felt book that illustrates how being dispossessed and being occupied are not merely legal or political conditions.” (New York Times Book Review)
  • “Absolutely gripping…Shehadeh’s writing is clear and pared-back; it wears its power lightly. But his masterly, remorseless selection and accumulation of detail builds an unanswerable case against Palestine’s historic and current oppressors.” (The Guardian)
  • “Shehadeh movingly blends the personal and political in this heartfelt take on his complex relationship with his lawyer father…This poignant memoir will resonate with many, whatever their positions on the political conflict at its center.” (Publishers Weekly)

Flaptekst van de memoir over zijn vader van de Palestijnse schrijver Raja Shehadeh

A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship.

A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognize his father’s courage and, in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja’s own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably.

This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians, but a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship.

Raja Shehadeh is Palestine’s leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books including Strangers in the House, Occupation Diaries, and Palestinian Walks, which won the prestigious Orwell Prize.

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Turkije, Turkse roman, Turkse schrijvers

Zülfü Livaneli – The Fisherman and His Son

Zülfü Livaneli The Fisherman and His Son recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Turkije. Op 20 juni 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Balıkçı ve Oğlu van de Turkse schrijver Zülfü Livaneli. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Zülfü Livaneli The Fisherman and His Son recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de  Turkse roman The Fisherman and His Son. Het boek is geschreven door Zülfü Livaneli . Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Turkse schrijver Zülfü Livaneli.

Zülfü Livaneli The Fisherman and His Son Roman uit Turkije

The Fisherman and His Son

  • Schrijver: Zülfü Livaneli (Turkije)
  • Soort boek: Turkse roman
  • Origineel: Balıkçı ve Oğlu (2021)
  • Engelse vertaling: Brendan Freely
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 20 juni 2023
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 16,99 / $ 10,99
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Zülfü Livaneli

In this humane, affecting tale of a Turkish couple who lose their child and find another, the internationally bestselling author explores the ethical questions surrounding immigration.

Fisherman Mustafa and his wife, Mesude, are devastated with grief for their son Deniz, who was lost at sea at seven years old. One day, Mustafa discovers the bodies of a woman and man in the water, likely refugees from Syria, Pakistan, or Afghanistan drowned as they attempted to reach Greece. Nearby, he also finds a baby boy, tied to a small inflatable boat and miraculously alive. Mustafa and Mesude at first welcome the child as a precious gift, a second Deniz, but when a woman appears, claiming to be his mother, they must make a painful decision.

Through their heart-wrenching story, Zülfü Livaneli sensitively evokes the struggles of migrants seeking a safer life in unknown, often hostile lands. In the process, he elucidates the history and culture of the Aegean, and the ecological destruction wreaked by corporations in the region.

Zülfü Livaneli (20 juni 1946, Ilgın, Konya) is Turkey’s best-selling author and a political activist. Widely considered one of the most important Turkish cultural figures of our time, he is known for his novels that interweave diverse social and historical backgrounds, figures, and incidents, including the critically acclaimed Bliss (winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award), Serenade for Nadia (Other Press, 2020), Disquiet (Other Press, 2021), The Last Island (Other Press, 2022), Leyla’s House, and My Brother’s Story, which have been translated into thirty-seven languages, won numerous international literary prizes, and been turned into movies, stage plays, and operas.

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Mario Fortunato – South

Mario Fortunato South recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Italiaanse roman over Calabrië. Op 16 mei 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Sud van de in Calabrië geboren Italiaanse schrijver Mario Fortunato. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Mario Fortunato South recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de Italiaanse roman South. Het boek is geschreven door Mario Fortunato. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Italiaans Calabrese schrijver Mario Fortunato.

Mario Fortunato South roman over Calabrië

South

  • Schrijver: Mario Fortunato (Italië)
  • Soort boek: Italiaanse Calabrië roman
  • Origineel: Sud (2020)
  • Engelse vertaling: Julia MacGibbon
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 mei 2023
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 18,99 / $ 11,99
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook

Flaptekst van de roman over Calabrië van Mario Fortunato

Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy.

As a young man in the Seventies, Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age, he begins to feel an intense regret, a longing for the world and the people he left behind, which he might not be able to recover, even after returning.

Set in Magna Graecia, the sun-drenched land where ancient Greeks stopped in their travels and happily settled, now full of ruins, South takes us back to a time when notaries and lawyers were undiscussed authorities in small towns. Meet the Notaio, his lover Magda, a Polish countess and a spy, and delve into their love story in Naples; meet the Farmacista, owner of the first chemist’s shop in town, his wife Lea, and their children; follow the paths where these lives cross, and Tamara, Mara for short, marries into the Notaio’s family; get to know charming Uncle Giorgio, an extravagant loner, owner of two small Gauguins, and Gioacchino, the house ghost.

Servants, drivers, peasants fully devoted and bound to their masters enliven this tale of love and loss, war and peace, politics and power, told in an elegant, affecting prose that transports us through time and space.

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