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American Novel, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, China, Chinese geschiedenis, coming-of-age roman

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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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
  • Prize:
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

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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Portia Elan – Homebound

Portia Elan Homebound review and information of the content of the coming-of-age novel by the American author. Chatto & Windus will publish the Portia Elan debut novel, on May 7, 2026. 

Portia Elan Homebound reviews

  • “A joy – at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human…. it kept me up all night!” (Madeline Miller)
  • “Homebound is the most original and arresting novel I’ve read in a very long time. Elan has created a century-spanning epic that’s also an utterly intimate story of love, loss, and found family. What a joy; what a marvel.” (Anna North)

Portia Elan Homebound

Homebound

  • Author: Portia Elan (United States)
  • Book type: American debut novel, coming-of-age novel
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
  • To be released: 7 May 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Portia Elan

Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game. And the many paths that can lead us home.

  • 1983: a grieving teenager can’t wait to leave home.
  • 2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit.
  • 2586: a pirate captain navigates the perils of a flooded world.
  • Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space.

It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. In the meantime, she has work to do: her uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.

What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across time, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew and bring them home.

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.

Portia Elan studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats. Homebound is her first novel.

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Tina de Bruin – Zeven brieven

Tina de Bruin Zeven brieven recensie, review en informatie over de eerste roman van de Nederlandse actrice. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Thomas Rap de debuutroman van Tina de Bruin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Tina de Bruin Zeven brieven recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Zeven brieven, de eerste roman van Tina de Bruin, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Tina de Bruin Zeven brieven

Zeven brieven

  • Auteur: Tina de Bruin (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: Nederlandse roman, debuutroman
  • Uitgever: Thomas Rap
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 248 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 22,99 / € 12,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van actrice Tina de Bruin

Dit verhaal begint als een meisje van vijf op haar blote voeten naar het huis van haar opa en oma rent. Thuis gaat het niet meer, maar bij haar grootouders ook niet. Haar opa houdt niet van mensen, en misschien nog wel het minst van haar oma. Het meisje voelt dat ze in dit dorp aan de oever van de Rijn niet kan blijven. Dat ze anders is dan Riny van Kleef, Rolton Wekenborg, Fenny Jeuken en Vette François, die hier wel kunnen ademen. Dat ze haar oma kan troosten, maar niet voor altijd. Ze hoopt dat charmezanger Rex Gildo gelijk heeft als hij zingt: ‘Es muß sich alles doch zum Guten wenden?’ Maar vooral hoopt ze dat er ergens een anders is.

Zeven brieven is het hartverscheurende maar ook geestige verhaal van een meisje dat zo snel mogelijk wil opgroeien om het anders te kunnen doen.

Tina de Bruin is geboren op 24 september 1975 in Tolkamer, Gelderland.  Ze is actrice en een van de meest geliefde podcastmakers van Nederland. Zeven brieven is haar debuurtoman.

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Davide Coppo – De verkeerde afslag

Davide Coppo De verkeerde afslag recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Italiaanse roman. Op 2 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgaverij Atlas Contact de Nederlandse vertaling van de coming of age-roman La parte sbagliata van de uit Italië afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Davide Coppo De verkeerde afslag recensie

  • “Deze roman komt precies op het juiste moment. Teder, goedgeschreven, intelligent. Laten we hopen dat het over dertig jaar geen opvolger behoeft.” (Corriere della Serra)
  • “Kristalhelder met en huiveringwekkende tederheid vertelt De vekeerde afslag het verhaal van de fascinatie van een jongen voor geweld, door de filter van adolescente betovering: niet vanuit haat of rebellie, maar als het tragische resultaat van een ingetogen zoektocht naar betekenis.” (Vincenzo Latronico)

Davide Coppo De verkeerde afslag

De verkeerde afslag

  • Auteur: Davide Coppo (Italië)
  • Soort boek: Italiaanse roman, coming of age-roman
  • Origineel: La parte sbagliata (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Hilda Schraa
  • Uitgever: Atlas Contact
  • Verschijnt: 2 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Davide Coppo

De veertienjarige Ettore woont met zijn zwijgzame ouders in een keurig voorstadje van Milaan. Hij is verlegen en onzeker en kan niet goed meekomen op zijn nieuwe middelbare school. Zijn charismatische schoolkameraad Giulio lijkt in alles zijn tegenpool. Hij neemt Ettore onder zijn hoede en sleept hem mee naar een bijeenkomst van een fascistische jeugdorganisatie. Samen gaan ze de straat op om te demonstreren en, in de ogen van Ettore, bij te dragen aan iets groots en rechtvaardigs. Eindelijk hoort hij ergens bij. Als het tot een gewelddadige confrontatie met een linkse jeugdgroep komt, raakt Ettore meegezogen in de roes van het moment. Hij overschrijdt hierbij een grens en zijn daden kunnen niet zonder consequenties blijven.

Davide Coppo is geboren in 1986. Hij is hoofdredacteur van het sporttijdschrift Rivista Undici en eigenaar van een wijnbar in Milaan. De verkeerde afslag is zijn debuut en is gebaseerd op zijn eigen jeugd. De roman verschijnt in oktober 2025.

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Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review, recensie en informatie roman over Antigua uit 1985 van de op het eiland geboren schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek Annie John van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jamaica Kincaid. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review en recensie

  • “What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.” (Ali Smith)
  • “An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer … thrilling.” (Susan Sontag)
  • “So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us … and that’s exactly the book’s strength, its wisdom, its truth.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl’s passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness.” (Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times)

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John

  • Annie John

    • Auteur: Jamaica Kincaid (Verenigde Staten)
    • Soort boek: coming of age-roman over Antigua uit 1985
    • Taal: Engels
    • Uitgever: Picador Collection
    • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
    • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
    • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
    • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

    Flaptekst van de roman van Jamaica Kincaid over Antigua

    A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.

    An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow.

    When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a ‘young lady’, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.

    Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949  in St. John’s, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s mother removed her from school at 16 to help support the family when her third and last brother was born, because her stepfather was ill and could no longer provide for the family. when Kincaid was 17, her mother sent her Annie John Jamaica Kincaid novel from 1985 first editionto Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City, to work as an au pair. refused to send money home and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later. Before she wrote her debut novel Annie John, she wrote short stories wich wehere published in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New Yorker and the new papers The New York Times. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Catherine Dang – What Hunger

Catherine Dang What Hunger review, recensie en informatie over de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de tweede roman van Catherine Dang, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Catherine Dang What Hunger review en recensie

  • “Tender, bold and brutally honest, What Hunger follows a Vietnamese refugee family struggling with questions of identity and grief. Dang deftly balances a poignant coming of age story and a gripping portrayal of feminine power. A brilliant novel filled with heartbreak and suspense.” (K.T. Nguyen)
  • “Raw, violent, tender, beautiful: Catherine Dang’s coming-of-age horror encapsulates both the savagery and fragility of teenage girlhood, like if Jennifer’s Body was elevated by a rich exploration of grief and a Vietnamese refugee family’s experiences in America after fleeing war. Dang’s darkly playful portrayal of cannibalism is vivid, funny, real—and a perfectly gruesome metaphor for female rage. It builds and boils, and the final twist had me cheering.” (Ashley Winstead)

Catherine Dang What Hunger

What Hunger

  • Auteur: Catherine Dang (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 27,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Catherin Dang

A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood.

It’s the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. The thought of Tommy leaving for college fills Ronny with dread, as she contemplates the quiet house she will be left alone in with her parents, Me and Ba.

Their parents rarely speak of their past in Vietnam, except through the lens of food. The family’s meals are a tapestry of cultural memory: thick spring rolls with slim and salty nem chua, and steaming bowls of pho tái with thin, delicate slices of blood-red beef. In the aftermath of the war, Me and Ba taught Ronny and Tommy that meat was a dangerous luxury, a symbol of survival that should never be taken for granted.

But when tragedy strikes, Ronny’s world is upended. Her sense of self and her understanding of her family are shattered. A few nights later, at her first high school party, a boy crosses the line, and Ronny is overtaken by a force larger than herself. This newfound power comes with an insatiable hunger for raw meat, a craving that is both a saving grace and a potential destroyer.

What Hunger is a visceral, emotional journey through the bursts and pitfalls of female rage. Ronny’s Vietnamese lineage and her mother’s emotional memory play a crucial role in this tender ode to generational trauma and mother-daughter bonding.

Catherine Dang is the author of the novels Nice Girls and What Hunger. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Jean Stafford – The Mountain Lion

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1947. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster Jean Stafford. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review en recensie

  • “It’s the story of a pair of siblings, 8-year-old Molly and 10-year-old Ralph, and the summers they spend on their uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Stafford treats both natural landscapes and the inner worlds of childhood with extraordinary reverence, as sites of perilous mystery. In her portrayal of Ralph, she writes the single greatest account I know of an adolescent boy coming into his sexuality, a terrifying discovery that alienates him from himself and others.” (Garth Greenwell, The Atlantic)
  • “One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.” (Lauren Groff)
  • “One of the best novels about adolescence in American literature.” (Hilton Als, New York Times)

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion

The Mountain Lion

  • Auteur: Jean Stafford (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1947
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: ‎ Faber and Faber
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Jean Stafford

Ralph and Molly are inseparable siblings: united against the stupidity of daily routines, their prim mother and prissy older sisters, the world of adult authority. One summer, they are sent from their childhood home in suburban Los Angeles to their uncle’s Colorado mountain ranch, where they write, hunt, roam. But this untamed wilderness soon becomes tainted by dark stirrings of sexual desire – and as the pressures of growing up drive an irrevocable rift between them, their innocent childhoods hurtle towards a devastating end.

Jean Stafford was born on 1 July 1915 in Covina, California. She was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1970 she received The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford Novel from 1947 first editionthe Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. In 1940 she published her first novel Boston Adventure, followed in 1947 with The Mountain Lion. Het third and last novel The Catherine Wheel was published in 1952. She died on 26 March 1979 in White Plains, New York, at the age of 63 of a heart attack. In the years before she suffered from alcoholism, depression, and pulmonary disease.

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Touhfat Mouhtare – The Fire Within

Touhfat Mouhtare The Fire Within review, recensie en informatie roman van de op de Comoren geboren schrijfster. Op 7 november 2025 verschijnt bij Dedalus Press de Engelse vertaling van Le Feu du Milieu, de roman van de Comorese schrijfster Touhfat Mouhtare waarvoor ze de Prix Alain Spiess du Deuxième Roman ontving. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Touhfat Mouhtare The Fire Within review en recensie

  • “De jury was onder de indruk van de overvloed aan verbeeldingskracht die in deze tekst tentoon wordt gespreid, ten dienste van zeer actuele onderwerpen: de zoektocht naar identiteit, de onderdrukking van vrouwen en meer.” (Prix Alain Spiess du Deuxième Roman jury)

Touhfat Mouhtare The Fire Within

The Fire Within

  • Auteur: Touhfat Mouhtare (Comoren)
  • Soort boek: Comorese roman
  • Origineel: Le Feu du Milieu (2022)
  • Engelse vertaling: Rachael McGill
  • Uitgever: Dedalus Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 november 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Comorese schrijfster Touhfat Mouhtare

The Fire Within is the story of the surprising coming-of age of a Comorian servant girl who, from the start, is like no one else in her tropical island community. She becomes obsessed with a mysterious aristocratic woman who introduces her to a world of shape-shifting and parallel realities. Their adventures together become dangerous when the woman’s husband finds out and reveals disturbing secrets about his wife.

By turns lyrical, shocking, erotic and magical, infused with legend and Islamic teachings, the novel gives an insight into a little-known country that is a melting-pot of global influences. It was the winner of the Prix Alain Spiess du deuxième roman 2022. Le Monde called it ‘the kind of novel that instantly reminds you why literature exists.’

Touhfat Mouhtare is geboren in 1986 in Moroni, Comoren, en groeide op tussen haar eiland en verschillende landen in Sub-Sahara Afrika. Ze kwam naar Frankrijk om haar studie voort te zetten en woont nu in Val-d’Oise. Ze is de auteur van twee boeken die in de Comoren zijn gepubliceerd: een verhalenbundel, Âmes suspendues (Cœlacanthe, 2011), en een roman, Vert cru (KomEdit, 2018, met een speciale vermelding van de Island Book Prize op de boekenbeurs van Ouessant).

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Heather Clark – The Scrapbook

Heather Clark The Scrapbook review, recensie en informatie debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 19 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Heather Clark. 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.

Heather Clark The Scrapbook review en recensie

  • “A swiftly-moving, molecularly perceptive, singular portrait of intoxicating young love.”  (Aube Rey Lescure)
  • “An elegant, unsettling novel about the burden of history and the illusions of love.” (Sana Krasikov)

Heather Clark The Scrapbook

The Scrapbook

  • Auteur: Heather Clark (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: coming of age-roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 19 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 18,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Heather Clark

Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she meets Christoph, a German student visiting campus. They only spend a week together – discussing art, ideas and history – but it is long enough for Anna to fall desperately in love. Anna begins to visit Christoph in Germany. As she tries to understand the young, elegant man who fascinates her, he reveals his country to her.

Germany is still reckoning with the Holocaust and its pretty new squares and grand facades belie its recent history and the war’s destruction. Christoph condemns his country’s actions but remains vague about the part his own grandparents played. Anna’s grandfather, meanwhile, was an American GI who took photos of the end of the war, photos that capture its horror, preserved in a scrapbook only Anna has seen.

Anna wants to believe in Christoph and the future he promises her but as their relationship becomes increasingly unsettling, she must face up to everything she has been unwilling to see, and everything Christoph has chosen to ignore.

Heather Clark is the author of four works of non-fiction, including Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (published by Jonathan Cape), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was the winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize and the Truman Capote Prize (awarded by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop). It was a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times and New York Times. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Time, Lit Hub, and TLS. She has recently received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Centre. The Scrapbook is her debut novel.

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