Thomas Kohnstamm Supersonic recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 25 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de familieroman van Thomas Kohnstamm, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. 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.
Thomas Kohnstamm Supersonic recensie, review en informatie
- “Masterfully rendered and mercilessly readable. Kohnstamm populates these pages with insight, hilarity, emotion, and unforgettable characters. Supersonic is a novel with so much narrative propulsion that it manages to live up to its name.” (Jonathan Evison, schrijver)
- “Kohnstamm serves up a splendid, centuries-spanning tale of Indigenous and colonial history in the Pacific Northwest … The interconnectedness of the cast creates an addictive narrative tension, and Kohnstamm’s character work is top notch … Readers shouldn’t miss Kohnstamm’s heartbreaking saga.” (Publishers Weekly)
Supersonic
- Auteur: Thomas Kohnstamm (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
- Verschijnt: 25 februari 2025
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 15,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Thomas Kohnstamm
When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school’s future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. Supersonic launches readers into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interrelated families who breathed life into that small, hilltop community.
The story cuts in time from the arrival of white settlers’ ships to the last indigenous landowner fighting to hold on to scraps of his ancestral home and back to the school’s PTA auction. It interweaves an opioid-addicted nineteenth-century con man–cum–civic booster, a disgraced Navy seaman building an airplane that travels faster than sound, a stay-at-home dad hustling to open the city’s first legal weed shop and Sami’s grandmother, a survivor of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, who founded the school’s once-celebrated music program.
The novel traces their false starts, triumphs, and heartbreaks through the booms and busts of the Yukon gold rush, the jet age, Big Tech, and beyond. By exploring the converging and often clashing personalities that make up the dynamic soul of a place, Supersonic illuminates themes of identity, displacement, destruction, and reinvention that give rise to all great American cities.
Thomas Kohnstamm was born on 24 november 1975 and raised in Seattle and still lives in the same house he grew up in—now with his wife and two children. He’s a career-long freelance writer and has run his own video and animation studio for over a decade. Supersonic is his third book.