Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse Schrijvers

John Grisham – De weduwe

John Grisham De weduwe recensie, review en informatie nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 21 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij A.W. Bruna Uitgevers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Widow, het nieuwe boek van John Grisham, de thrillerschrijver uit de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

John Grisham De weduwe recensie en review

John Grisham is een veelschrijver die al vele duizenden pagina’s volgeschreven heeft met spannende verhalen. Duidelijk heeft hij een voorkeur voor de juridische thriller, alhoewel dit niet voor al van zijn boeken geldt. Bovendien heeft hij een voorliefde voor personages die hun hand overspelen en die zich daardoor diep in de nesten werken. En dit laatst is ook weer het onderwerp van deze thriller.

Hoofdpersoon Simon Latch is een advocaat in een provinciestad. Maar in tegenstelling tot sommige van zijn collega’s in de stad verdient hij nauwelijks genoeg om zijn hoofd boven water te houden. Dan doet zich een kans voor als hij bij toeval een weduwe ontmoet. De nalatenschap van haar man lijkt van hoge waarde te zijn en vrijwel niemand weet ervan af. Latch stort zich vol op de zaak in de verwachting dat deze hem uit zijn eigen financiële problemen zal helpen.

Echter als blijkt dat de weduwe heeft gelogen en een spel speelt komt hij zelf in de problemen. Zo erg zelfs dat hij verdacht wordt van moord. Een levenslange gevangenisstraf hang hem boven het hoofd.

Ook nu weer slaagt John Grisham er weer in de lezer een spannend en boeiend verhaal voor te schotelen, vanzelfsprekend weer verlevendigd met de nodige ironische observaties. De ruim 500 pagina’s dikke juridische thriller zal de liefhebbers van Grisham zeker niet teleurstellen en ook wie nog nooit een boek van de schrijver heeft gelezen zal er plezier aan beleven. Het boek is gewaardeerd met ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed).

John Grisham De weduwe

De weduwe

  • Auteur: John Grisham (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Origineel: The Widow (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Saskia Peterzon-Kotte
  • Uitgever: A.W. Bruna Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 24,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe John Grisham thriller

Advocaat Simon Latch verdient net genoeg om rond te komen. Maar wanneer hij Eleanor Barnett ontmoet, een oudere weduwe die een nieuw testament nodig heeft, keren zijn kansen. Eleanors echtgenoot heeft haar namelijk een klein fortuin nagelaten waar vrijwel niemand van afweet.

Dan blijkt dat het verhaal van de weduwe niet klopt, en wordt Simon aangeklaagd voor moord. Hij weet dat hij onschuldig is, maar hij zou zomaar levenslang kunnen krijgen. Om zichzelf te redden, zit er dan ook maar één ding op: zelf de echte moordenaar vinden.

John Grisham is op 8 februari 1955 geboren in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten, als tweede kind in een gezin van vijf. Na zijn studie rechten aan de University of Mississippi werkte hij bijna tien jaar lang als jurist, waarbij hij zich specialiseerde in strafrechtelijke zaken en letselschadeclaims. In 1983 werd hij gekozen tot lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden van de staat Mississippi, een functie die hij tot 1990 bekleedde. Als thrillerschrijver debuteerde hij in 1988 is de auteur van meer dan vijftig thrillers en romans, waarvan er vele werden verfilmd. Hij is een van de succesvolste thrillerschrijvers aller tijden. In zowel zijn boeken als in zijn eigen leven voert hij strijd tegen onrecht en trekt hij zich het lot aan van diegenen in de samenleving die er alleen voor staan of niet de middelen hebben om voor zichzelf op te komen.

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Ha Jin – Looking for Tank Man

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man review review and information of the content of the new novel by the Chinese American writer and poet about hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Other Press will publish the new Ha Jin novel, on October 21, 2025.

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man review

  • “Looking for Tank Man is a deeply moving and important novel, shaped by meticulous research and illuminated by Ha Jin’s singular voice. Spanning Harvard, Flushing, and Beijing, it traverses geographies and timelines to tell the powerful story of one young woman’s quest for knowledge, and how her findings reshape her understanding of her homeland and herself. This is a novel that captures the urgency of reckoning with atrocity, the intergenerational weight of history, and how the past—once uncovered—continues to shape our moral consciousness. A vital, haunting story about truth, memory, and the price of knowing.” (Michelle Min Sterling, author of Camp Zero)
  • “A timely cautionary tale about authoritarian rule and a sensitive portrayal of the power of knowledge and the challenges of academia.” (Booklist)

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man

Looking for Tankman

  • Author: Ha Jin (United States)
  • Book type: Novel about Tiananmen Square protests
  • Publisher: Other Press
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 19.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Ha Jin

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award–winning author.

When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the People’s Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement, and from a formative university course based on powerful firsthand accounts.

At once a compelling coming-of-age tale and a poignant tribute to the courage of activists, Looking for Tank Man keeps this tragedy alive in the public memory and warns against the dangers of authoritarian regimes.

Ha Jin, real name Jin Xuefei (金雪飞), was born February 21, 1956 in Liaoning, China. He grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English ten novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and he has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. Ha Jin’s novel The Woman Back from Moscow was published by Other Press in 2023.

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Tochi Onyebuchi – Racebook

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook review and information of the content of essays, memoir and a personal history of the Internet by the American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. Grove Atlantic will publish the new Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore novel, on October 21, 2025. 

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook reviews

  • “We are in the best, most absolute trouble, y’all, because Tochi Onyebuchi writes as well as he understands the internet, which means he writes as well as humans run from accountable desire. Racebook is absolutely singular in the history of book-making, and the love shown to Black folks and our internet here is as textured as anything Morrison made. We are in trouble, the best, most uprooting trouble, and I am thankful.” (Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Long Division and Heavy)
  • “Starkly original, provocative and brilliantly executed, Racebook warrants our undivided attention. Onyebuchi is a sage observer of this fractured moment and among the internet’s keenest interlocutors.”(Jelani Cobb, author of Three or More is a Riot and New Yorker Staff Writer)
  • “Beginning with the adulation of Black cosplayers seizing physical and intellectual properties long coded as white spaces, [Onyebuchi] writes a memoir that contemplates his life online . . . There is personal history throughout, but the essays are global reflections on internet culture more than traditional memoir. Onyebuchi captures several universal moments of a generation growing up online but pushes the narrative further to encompass how it intersected with his offline world.” (Library Journal)

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook

Racebook

A Personal History of the Internet

  • Author: Tochi Onyebuchi (United States)
  • Book type: essays. memoir
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00 /
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by Tochi Onyebuchi

When Tochi Onyebuchi realized his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his responsibilities as a Black writer in the internet age. In brilliantly crafted essays, Onyebuchi excavates the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s, tracing his online persona back to its origins to explore how both evolved in the ensuing decades. Brimming with voracious curiosity and razor-sharp wit, Racebook is a penetrating meditation on how identity and race are forged in the crucible of being online.

Beginning with the current moment when everything is a matter of dispute, back to Web 1.0’s promises of greater equality and a bright digital future, Onyebuchi deftly examines internet culture and its role in shaping our perception of ourselves, our world, and the potential realities we can envision. From the ever-changing nature of personal writing and free expression, to gaming, manga, fandom, and virtual reality, Racebook considers the internet alongside works of literature both classic and new, asking if our vision for what is possible has really broadened. And given the inequities Black people still face, on and off the page, does the internet only amplify our failures of imagination?

An original investigation of race through the lens of the modern internet age and an affecting journey into the heart of community online, Racebook argues for recognizing the individual behind the binary code that shapes our digital lives. As Onyebuchi asks, “Is this a race book or is it not? Is it either-or? Can it be both-and? Can I?”

Tochi Onyebuchi was born October 4, 1987 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. He has earned degrees from Yale University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He currently resides in Connecticut.

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Brandon Taylor – Minor Black Figures

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Riverhead Books will publish the new Brandon Taylor novel, on October 14, 2025. 

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures review

  • “Taylor’s most accomplished novel – a sustained, idiosyncratic portrait of an artist.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “Brandon Taylor is a literary superstar … Taylor’s third novel [is] a smart and soulful exploration set in the world of art (both contemporary and historical). The book deftly explores race and sexuality, religion and community, and the way love can change a life.” (The Boston Globe)
  • “A meditative, illuminating portrait of friendship and competition, belief systems and the connections between us all.” (People)
  • “Dazzling … a poetic meditation on Black art, friendship, young love and intimacy.” (USA Today)

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures

Minor Black Figures

  • Author: Brandon Taylor (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • Released: 14 October 2025
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Format: hardcover / paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 39.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Brandon Taylor

The story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity.

New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.

After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian. Over the long summer, as the two get to know each another, they talk and argue about God, sex, and art.

Meanwhile, at his job working for an art restorer, Wyeth begins to investigate the life and career of a forgotten, minor black artist. His search yields potential answers to questions that Wyeth is only now beginning to ask about what it means to be a black artist making black art amid the mess and beauty of life itself.

As he did so brilliantly in the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings alive a captivating set of characters, this time at work and at play in the competitive art world. Minor Black Figures is a vividly etched portrait, both sweeping and tender, of friendship, creativity, belief, and the deep connections among them.

Brandon Taylor is born June 1, 1989 in Prattville, Alabama. He  the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He lives in New York City.

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Jay McInerney – See You on the Other Side

Jay McInerney See You on the Other Side review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Knopf will publish the Jay McInerney novel, on April 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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See You on the Other Side

  • Author: Jay McInerney (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • To be released: April 14, 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Jay McInerney novel

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their sixties, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past forty years.

The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway’s best friend, Washington Lee—the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father—at the Odeon in the Spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality as the specter of the Covid-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval—frantic and fraught real-time response, piercing personal and political impact—the Calloways find themselves and their marriage tested in ways they could never have anticipated as fatal consequences ensue.

Jay McInerney was born January 13, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of eight novels, two collections of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine. His latest book, Bright, Precious Days, was published in 2016. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.

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Steven J. Zipperstein – Philip Roth biografie

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de nieuwe Philip Roth biografie. Het boek is geschreven door Steven J. Zipperstein. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth biografie recensie en review

  • “Steven Zipperstein’s appreciation of Philip Roth is literary biography at its best. Acute and original judgments of Roth’s written worlds come embraided with revelatory portrayals of the worlds Roth inhabited, scrutinized, and provoked, and of Roth himself, solemn and hilarious, voraciously curious, a boundless sensual spirit riven by his craft.” (Sean Wilentz)
  • “This is one of the fairest and finest literary biographies I have read, with the emphasis on literary. Zipperstein does Philip Roth and his life’s work more than justice. He has produced a book that is a work of literature itself. Not every writer is what Roth called (and was called) ‘a writer’s writer.’ And not every scribe who undertakes to write a major life is truly a writer’s biographer. Zipperstein is one.” (Judith Thurman)

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Strung by Life

  • Auteur: Steven J. Zipperstein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Philip Roth door Steven J. Zipperstein

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life.

In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of America’s most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey—where his short stories and books were often set—Roth wrote with ambition and awareness of what was required to produce great literature. No writer was more dedicated to his craft, even as he was rubbing shoulders with the Kennedys and engaging in a spate of famous and infamous romances. And yet, as much as Roth wrote about sex and self, he viewed himself as socially withdrawn, living much like an “unchaste monk” (his words).

Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth’s work—from “Goodbye, Columbus” and Portnoy’s Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral and The Plot Against America. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews, including conversations with Roth about his life and work, Zipperstein provides an intimate and insightful look at one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers, placing his work in the context of his obsessions, as well as American Jewishness, freedom, and sexuality.

Steven J. Zipperstein is born in 1950. He is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing and Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Ron Rindo – Life, and Death, and Giants

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. St. Martin’s Press will publish the new Ron Rindo novel, on october 11, 2025. 

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review

  • “Life, and Death, and Giants is an intriguing and alluring novel from beginning to end. The events are startling, sad, amusing, invigorating, and informative. Reading it is like meeting a family that you never knew existed and becoming close friends in a few weeks. Highly recommended.” (Jane Smiley)
  • “A rare novel … Unbearably moving, yet hopeful and transcendent in all the best ways. Just read it. Lose yourself in it. Be changed by it.” (Jennie Godfrey)
  • “A small-town novel as magical and moral as a tall tale.” (Stewart O’Nan)

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants

Life, and Death, and Giants

  • Author: Ron Rindo (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
  • To be released: 11 October 2025
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
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Blurb of the new book by Ron Rindo

A remarkable child transforms a small rural community – and, soon, the world.

In Lakota, Wisconsin, a young, unmarried Amish woman births a miraculous, eighteen-pound baby, and no one in the community knows what to make of the boy.

Raised by his brother on a struggling farm, Gabriel Fisher walks at eight months, communicates with animals and possesses astonishing athletic abilities. When his brother dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout grandparents and, for a time, he disappears into the anonymity of Amish life.

But then, aged seventeen and nearly eight feet tall, Gabriel is spotted working in a hayfield by the local football coach and his life changes for ever.

In Life, and Death, and Giants, Gabriel’s extraordinary, timeless story is told by those whose lives are transformed by him: the veterinarian who delivers him and becomes his mentor; his grandmother, who is troubled by a deep void in her faith; the salty bar owner who acts as a bridge between the Amish and English communities in Lakota; and the football coach who tries to counsel Gabriel as his fame explodes, with consequences that no one could have anticipated.

Ron Rindo is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He has published one previous novel, Breathing Lake Superior, and three short story collections. He lives in Pickett, Wisconsin.

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James McBride – De hemel & aarde winkel

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Meridiaan Uitgevers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, de roman van James McBride. de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave.

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensie

  • “Dit is zo’n roman die een deel van je wordt. Het is een geweldig boek. Elk personage is rijk, elk detail is rijk. Ik kan dit boek van harte aanbevelen. Hij is een geweldige auteur en ik denk dat dit zijn beste werk is.” (Harlan Coben)
  • “Een echte McBride: hij schuwt geen gewaagde uitspraken over de nationale catastrofes van ras en xenofobie, en hij geeft ons altijd een lepeltje suiker om de pijn te verzachten. De kers op de taart zijn McBrides scherpe dialogen en moordmysterie-waardige plotwendingen; de grote persoonlijkheden en grotere verhaallijnen van zijn personages; zijn gevatte, snelle humor; en proza ​​zo wendbaar en uitbundig dat het lezen van hem voelt als een jazzjamsessie … McBride lezen voelt gewoon goed – we worden getroost en vermaakt, en voorbereid op de harde lessen die hij ons ook leert.” (The Atlantic)
  • “Met dit verhaal legt McBride op briljante wijze een snel veranderend land vast, gezien door de ogen van de recent aangekomenen en de voormalige slaven… En door deze evocatie biedt McBride ons een grondige herinnering: tegen schijnbaar onmogelijke verwachtingen in, zelfs te midden van de meest kwaadaardige plannen van de mensheid, kunnen liefde, gemeenschap en actie ons redden.” (The New York Times Book Review)

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel

De hemel & aarde winkel

  • Auteur: James McBride (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Kees Mollema
  • Uitgever: Meridiaan Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 460 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van James McBride

De Hemel & Aarde Winkel begint in 1972, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, als bij graafwerkzaamheden een skelet en wat voorwerpen, zoals een mezoeze, worden aangetroffen – wat de politie ertoe brengt de enige joodse inwoner van het stadje te ondervragen. Het onderzoek wordt echter bemoeilijkt wanneer de plaats delict wordt weggevaagd door orkaan Agnes.

McBride keert vervolgens terug naar het Pottstown van de jaren twintig en dertig en beschrijft het leven van de inwoners van de overwegend arme zwarte en joodse wijk Chicken Hill. Het joodse echtpaar Moshe en Chona Ludlow zijn eigenaar van een theater met danszaal, en van een kruidenierswinkel, De Hemel & Aarde Winkel. Een van de zwarte inwoners vraagt de Ludlows om een dove jongen, Dodo, te verbergen voor de autoriteiten die hem willen opnemen in een beruchte psychiatrische inrichting. De plaatselijke arts, lid van de Ku Klux Klan, heeft racistische, xenofobe motieven en wordt helaas door veel blanke inwoners gesteund in zijn beleid. De zwarte en joodse dorpsbewoners komen uiteindelijk in actie om de jongen te helpen.

Een favoriet boek van Barack Obama, inmiddels zo’n 1.500.000 exemplaren verkocht in Amerika, uitgeroepen als beste boek van het jaar door boekhandelsketen Barnes & Noble, Amazon, én de zelfstandige boekhandels — om maar wat aanbevelingen te noemen. Bovendien heeft de roman de National Book Award ontvangen.

James McBride (is geboren op 11 september 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. Hij studeerde compositie aan het Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio en journalistiek aan de Columbia University. Zijn werk is verschenen in Essence, Rolling Stone en The New York Times. Spike Lee verfilmde in 2008 McBride’s debuutroman Miracle at St. Anna, het script schreef McBride. McBride is een bekroond auteur, muzikant en scenarioschrijver. Zijn baanbrekende memoir uit 1996, The Color of Water, De kleur van water, stond meer dan twee jaar op de bestsellerlijst van The New York Times. In 2002 verscheen Miracle at St. Anna, die in het Nederlands is vertaald als Het wonder van Santa Anna. Ook schreef hij Kill ‘Em and Leave, vertaald als James Brown op zoek naar de Godfather of Soul. Zijn roman The Good Lord Bird uit 2013 werd in het Nederlands vertaald als Lieveheersvogel. In 2015 ontving hij de National Humanities Medal van president Obama ‘voor het menselijk maken van de complexiteit van het debat over ras in Amerika’.

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Eric Puchner – Dream State

Eric Puchner Dream State recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van Dream State, de roman van Eric Puchner. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Eric Puchner Dream State recensie

  • “Wonderschoon. Met een van de meest ontroerende en bevredigende laatste hoofdstukken die ik in jaren heb gelezen.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Een frisse blik op het huwelijk en een prachtige, urgente overdenking van de grote gevolgen van kleine keuzes.” (The New York Times)
  • “Een schitterend panoramisch verhaal over familiebanden… Puchner vertelt zijn verhaal zo meeslepend, zo boeiend, met zoveel warmte en humor, dat je pas wanneer je het boek weglegt, de genialiteit van wat hij heeft gedaan kunt waarderen.” (Guardian)

Eric Puchner Dream State

Dream State

  • Auteur: Eric Puchner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Dream State (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Peter Abelsen
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99 / € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Eric Puchner

Cece arriveert in Montana bij het huis van haar toekomstige schoonfamilie om haar en Charlies bruiloft voor te bereiden. De bruidegom heeft zijn beste vriend, Garrett, een nurkse, getraumatiseerde man, als ceremoniemeester gevraagd. Omdat Charlie later komt zijn Cece en Garrett de eerste dagen op elkaar aangewezen. Bijna ongemerkt legt Garrett zijn norse masker af en Cece begint steeds meer te twijfelen aan haar toekomst. De gebeurtenissen van die zomer hebben niet alleen verstrekkende gevolgen voor henzelf, maar werpen ook een lange schaduw over het leven van hun kinderen.

Vijftig jaar omspannend en tegen de achtergrond van een opwarmend Montana, onderzoekt Dream State wat het betekent om te leven met gemaakte fouten uit het verleden, zowel die van onszelf als die van generaties voor ons.

Eric Puchner is geboren in 1970. Hij auteur en universitair hoofddocent aan Johns Hopkins University. Zijn essays verschenen o.a. in GQ, Granta, McSweeney’s. Hij ontving een Award in Literature van de American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dream State is zijn meest recente roman.

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Chris Kraus – The Four Spent the Day Together

Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new Chris Kraus novel, on October 7, 2025. 

Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together review

  • “The novelist Chris Kraus doesn’t demand your attention but earns it. There’s a steady quality to her observations and her truth-dealing, one that makes you want to see more clearly and live more deliberately. Some writers make life seem like a game. Kraus, who is also a filmmaker and art critic, makes it seem like a project.” (The New York Times)
  • “This is a novel of the American moment by a writer whose antennae are attuned to subtle connections and strange cross-currents. Chris Kraus has a gift for making intimate things part of a pattern and for making that pattern a fresh and engaged way of dramatizing the way we live now.” (Colm Tóibín)
  • “The Four Spent the Day Together is searing politics by storytelling, a novel constructed through counterpoint as it moves among the drowned, the drowning, and the survivors of the brutal American landscape we live in now.” (Siri Hustvedt)
  • “Unlike so many books one reads, this book is a real book. Chris Kraus is one of America’s best—purest, least corporate, most bracingly weird—writers. She’s an artist of the margins: of crime and addiction and fallenness, of the indignity of poverty and the injustices of class. She’s serious but never, ever a drag: funny and ironic, a gentle spirit who knows, when need be, how to wield a knife. American literature would be healthier—more vital, more fun—if more people read Chris Kraus.” (Benjamin Moser)
  • “The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable…I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too.” (Rachel Kushner)

Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together

The Four Spent the Day Together

  • Author: Chris Kraus (United States)
  • Book type: American novel, crime novel
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • To be released: 7 October 2025
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14,99 / $ 24.99
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Blurb of the new book by Chris Kraus

On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned.

At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota—between the art world and the urban poverty of Paul’s addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Range—Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers’ lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut.

Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor.

Chris Kraus was born in 1955 in New Yrol City. She is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. She has published three books of cultural criticism—Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020–2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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