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Beste Amerikaanse romans

Beste Amerikaanse romans. Wat zijn de allerbeste romans van Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters? Welke romans uit de Verenigde Staten worden gezien als de beste?

Beste Amerikaanse romans

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Wat zijn de beste Amerikaanse romans?

Onze redactie kiest ervoor om een alfabetisch overzicht te maken van Amerikaanse romans die volgens velen het lezen meer dan waard zijn. Er zullen bovendien nieuwe uitstekende en uitmuntende romans van Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters worden toegevoegd. Ook is er aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman, mits deze verschenen is, uiteraard.

Warren Adler The War of the Roses recensieWarren Adler – The War of the Roses

roman uit 1981
Nederlandse vertaling: The War of the Roses
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Jaren 80-klassieker over een huwelijk in verval, een onvergetelijk portret van een scheiding. In deze vlijmscherpe, zwarte komedie doen beide echtgenoten er alles aan om hun wederhelft te vernietigen – tot elke prijs…lees verder >

James Baldwin Giovanni's Room 1956 novel first editionJames Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room

roman uit 1956
Nederlandse vertaling: Giovanni’s kamer
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
In het Parijs van de jaren vijftig valt de jonge Amerikaan David voor de Italiaanse barman Giovanni. Als Davids verloofde Hella terugkeert van een reis raakt hij verscheurd tussen zijn verlangens en de conventionele moraal. Ondertussen neemt het leven van Giovanni een vreselijke wending…lees verder >

Djuna Barnes Nachtwoud recensieDjuna Barnes – Nightwood

roman uit 1936
Nederlands vertaling: Nachtwoud
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
In Nachtwoud vertelt Djuna Barnes de verhalen van een groep Amerikaanse en Europese ontwortelden in het Parijs van de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw, die in de marges van de maatschappij leven: circusartiesten, homoseksuelen, transgenders, travestieten – een nachtelijke onderwereld, excentriek, louche en mooi…lees verder >

Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies 1943 novel first editionJane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies

roman uit 1943
Nederlandse vertaling: Twee dames die het leven ernstig nemen
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides in her house and tries not to be unhappy. Mrs Copperfield, an anxious, dutiful married woman, has a great fear of drowning, of lifts, of intruders in the night. Two serious ladies, nothing is natural for them and anything is possible…lees verder >

The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles novel from 1949 first editionPaul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky

roman uit 1949
Nederlandse vertaling: Het dak van de hemel
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria – uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind. The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling…lees verder >

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie en reviewTruman Capote – In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
true crime roman uit 1966
Nederlandse vertaling: In koelen bloede
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved…lees verder >

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark review en recensieWilla Cather – The Song of the Lark

Amerikaanse roman uit 1915, The Prairie Trilogy 2
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift – her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past…lees verder >

Stanley Elkin The Franchiser reviewStanley Elkin  – The Franchiser

roadnovel uit 1976
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
The Franchiser follows Ben Flesh—one of the men “who made America look like America, who made America famous.” He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy. As blackouts roll through the West, Ben struggles with the onset of multiple sclerosis, and the growing realization that his lifetime quest to buy a name for himself has ultimately failed…lees verder >

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man recensie, review en informatieRalph Ellison – Invisible Man

sociale roman uit 1952
Nederlandse vertaling: Onzichtbare man
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the ‘invisible man’ retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground…lees verder >

Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante novel from 1938 first editionJohn Fante – Wait Until Spring, Bandini

roman uit 1938, Bandini Quartet 1
Nederlandse vertaling: Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression…lees verder >

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

roman uit 1925
Nederlandse vertaling: De grote Gatsby
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach … Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting…lees verder >

Save Me the Waltz Zelda Fitzgerald 1932 novel first editionZelda Fitzgerald – Save Me the Waltz

1932 novel
Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work…read on >

Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

familieroman uit 2001
Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas…lees verder >

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories reviewJewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories

futuristische slavernijroman uit 1991
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men’s clothing and seem to know others’ innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to ‘share the blood’ and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women’s suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world…lees verder >

Hannah Green I Never Promised You a Rose Garden novel 1964 first editionJoanne Greenberg – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

roman uit 1964, gepubliceerd als Hannah Green
Nederlandse vertaling: Ik heb je nooit een rozentuin beloofd  
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Sixteen-year-old Deborah’s identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the ‘normal’ world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way back…lees verder >

Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon reviewDashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon

American detective novel
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Nederlandse vertaling: De Maltezer valk
Sam Spade is hired by the alluring Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with ne-er do well Floyd Thursby. But when Spade’s partner Miles Archer is murdered while on Thursby’s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the mythical jewel-encrusted Falcon, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man and how far can he trust the seductive Miss Wonderley?…lees verder >

Joseph Heller Catch-22 first edition 1961Joseph Heller – Catch-22

roman over de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit 1961
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Catch-22
It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him. But the enemy above is not Yossarian’s problem – it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne…lees verder >

S.E. Hinton The Outsiders Amerikaanse roman uit 1967S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders

coming of age-roman uit 1967
Nederlandse vertaling: De outsiders
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
The bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola. The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows…lees verder >

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter first edition form 1930Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter

Harlem Renaissance roman uit 1930
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
In a poor town in Kansas, an African American family struggles. At its centre sits Sandy Rodgers – a young boy attempting to find purpose amid the chaos, meagreness and music of his surroundings. His narrative intertwines with those of his family – his wandering father, his fervent grandmother, his blues-singing aunt – to create a brilliantly intricate portrait of Black life in the early twentieth century…lees verder >

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson novel from 1912 first editionJames Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Amerikaanse roman uit 1912
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt…lees verder >

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Eerste drukKen Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

roman uit 1962
Nederlandse vertaling: En ééntje zag ze vliegen
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates…lees verder >

Annie John Jamaica Kincaid novel from 1985 first editionJamaica Kincaid – Annie John

coming of age roman uit 1985 over Antigua
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
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…lees verder >

Elaine Kraf I Am Clarence reviewElaine Kraf – I Am Clarence

roman uit 1969
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
For Clarence’s mother, life revolves around her young son; she takes him to see specialists to find the cause of his blindness and developmental delays, protects him from the cruelty of other children, and loves him tenderly. But she has her own struggles too. Her sanity is precarious and fractured, making caregiving increasingly difficult…lees verder >

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Amerikaanse roman uit 1960Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

roman uit 1960
Nederlandse vertaling: Spaar de spotvogel
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Summers for Scout in the Deep South are long and golden. Her story is one of innocence, and growing up. It is also about justice. When Scout’s father Atticus Finch, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he takes on the prejudice of the whole town…lees verder >

Jack London The Call of the Wild recensie en reviewJack London – The Call of the Wild

roman uit 1903
Nederlandse vertaling: De roep van de wildernis
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London’s vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author’s unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest…lees verder >

William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow reviewWilliam Maxwell – So Long, See You Tomorrow

roman uit 1980
Nederlandse vertaling: Tot ziens, tot morgen
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
In the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their rural lives – forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites between their farming families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs their bond forever. Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret…lees verder >

Cormac McCarthy The Border TrilogyCormac McCarthy – The Border Trilogy

Amerikaanse westernromans
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
The Crossing (1994)
Cities of the Plain (1998)
Nederlandse vertaling: De grenstrilogie
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
De jongemannen in deze drie klassieke meesterwerken groeien op in de jaren dertig op ranches in het zuidwesten van de VS. Aan de andere kant van de grens lonkt Mexico, met zijn desolate schoonheid en zijn wrede belofte van een plek waar dromen met bloed bekostigd worden…lees verder >

Bernice L. McFadden Sugar review en recensieBernice L. McFadden –  Sugar

roman uit 2000
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
When she arrives in the southern town of Bigelow, it isn’t long before the neighbourhood is alight with gossip and suspicion. Sugar fears her past is catching up with her. Then she meets Pearl, a woman trying to forget her own trauma. As these next-door neighbours become unlikely friends, they wonder if their lives could finally be changing for the better. But small towns have long memories…lees verder >

Claude McKay Home to Harlem review en recensieClaude McKay – Home to Harlem

Harlem Renaissance roman uit 1928
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
When Jake Brown joins the army during the First World War, he is treated more like a slave than a soldier. After deserting his post to escape the racial violence he is facing, Jake travels back home to Harlem. But despite the distance, Jake cannot seem to escape the past and the explosive ways in which it can culminate…lees verder >

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove Western novel from 1985 first editionLarry McMurtry – Lonsesome Dove

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1971
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1986
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a perilous cattle drive across the sprawling wilderness, from Texas to Montana. Bound by duty and hardened by the relentless frontier, their shared journey embodies the enduring spirit of the West. The saga paints the American West with a palette of nuanced characters, from heroes to outlaws, in a narrative that is as unflinching as it is captivating…lees verder >

Herman Melville Moby-Dick recensie en reviewHerman Melville – Moby-Dick

avonturenroman uit 1851
Nederlandse vertaling: Moby-Dick
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Moby-Dickis a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville’s lifelong meditation on America…lees verder >

Henry Miller Sexus reviewHenry Miller – Sexus

The Rosy Crusifixion 1

autobiografische erotische roman uit 1949
Nederlandse vertaling: Sexus
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his ‘rosy crucifixion’. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life…lees verder >

Toni Morrison – Beloved

historische slavernijroman uit 1987
Nederlandse vertaling: Beminde
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’…lees verder >

Ann Petry De straat RecensieAnn Petry – The Street

Afro-Amerikaanse roman over Harlem uit 1946
Nederlandse vertaling: De straat
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
De straat, de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Ann Petry verscheen in 1946 en werd een verkoopsucces met zo’n 1 miljoen verkochte exemplaren. Het boek is gesitueerd in de New Yorkse wijk Harlem in de veertiger jaren van de vorige eeuw en schetst het leven van een alleenstaande jonge vrouw die samen met haar zoon zo goed en zo kwaad als het kan verbetering aan te brengen in haar miserabele leefomstandigheden en een bestaan probeert op te bouwen…recensie lezen >

Robert Plunket Love Junkie 1992 novel first editionRobert Plunket – Love Junkie

roman uit 1992
Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquée, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society…read on >

Thomas Pynchon – Vineland

roman uit 1990
Nederlandse vertaling: Vineland
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie’s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc…lees verder >

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged roman uit 1957Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

roman uit 1957
Nederlandse vertaling: De kracht van Atlantis
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Opening with the enigmatic question ‘Who is John Galt?’, Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the ‘men of talent’ – the great innovators, producers and creators – have mysteriously disappeared. With the US economy now faltering, businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running. For her John Galt is the enemy, but as she will learn, nothing in this situation is quite as it seems…lees verder >

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye roman uit 1951J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

coming of age-roman uit 1951
Nederlandse vertaling: De vanger in het graan
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind…lees verder >

James Salter A Sport and a Pastime reviewJames Salter – A Sport and a Pastime

Amerikaanse roman uit 1967
Nederlandse vertaling: Spel en tijdverdrijf
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
A Sport and a Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter’s reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived, between body and soul…lees verder >

Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony Indiaanse roman uit 1977Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony

native American roman
Nederlandse vertaling: Ceremony
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he finds himself scarred by his experiences as a prisoner of war, and further wounded by the rejection he finds among his own people. Only by rediscovering the traditions, stories and ceremonies of his ancestors can he start to heal, and find peace…lees verder >

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 novel first editionBetty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1943 Brooklyn novel
Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
The Nolan family are first-generation immigrants to the United States. Originating in Ireland and Austria, their life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn is poor and deprived, but their sacrifices make it possible for their children to grow up in a land of boundless opportunity. Francie Nolan is the eldest daughter of the family. Alert, imaginative and resourceful, her journey through the first years of a century of profound change is difficult – and transformative…read on >

The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford Novel from 1947 first editionJean Stafford – The Mountain Lion

coming of age-roman uit 1947
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
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…lees verder >

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose review en recensieWallace Stegner – Angle of Repose

westernroman uit 1971
Nederlandse vertaling: De fundamenten van ons leven
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1972
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead…lees verder >

The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein novel from 1925 first editionGertrude Stein – The Making of Americans

roman uit 1925
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America…lees verder >

John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath

roman uit 1939
Nederlandse vertaling: De druiven der gramschap
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness…lees verder >

John Steinbeck East of Eden roman uit 1952John Steinbeck – East of Eden

roman uit 1952
Nederlandse vertaling: Ten oosten van Eden
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
East of Eden was considered by Steinbeck to be his magnum opus, and its epic scope and memorable characters, exploring universal themes of love and identity, ensure it remains one of America’s most enduring novels…lees verder >

Wallace Thurman – The Blacker the Berry

Harlem Renaissance roman uit 1929
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, and the first novel to openly address prejudice among black Americans and the issue of colorism, The Blacker the Berry is a book of undiminished power about the invidious role of skin color in American society…lees verder >

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace novel from 1996 first editionDavid Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest

roman uit 1996
Nederlandse vertaling: Eindeloos vertier
Eindeloos vertier, het kolossale, tragikomische meesterwerk van David Foster Wallace, speelt zich af in een kliniek voor drugsverslaafden en een tennisacademie, gelegen in een fictief Amerika waar bedrijven de dienst uitmaken en de smetvrezende zanger Johnny Gentle president is. Via de Incandenza’s, de meest innemend verknipte familie van de moderne literatuurgeschiedenis, en dan met name wonderkind Hal, volgen we een maatschappij die in de ban is van een film die zó vermakelijk is dat iedereen die hem kijkt al het andere in zijn leven vergeet en uiteindelijk wegglijdt in een catatonische gelukzaligheid…lees verder >

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocense novel from 1920 first editionEdith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

roman uit 1920
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: De jaren van onschuld
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May’s cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence…lees verder >

Edith Wharton The Glimpes of the Moon first edition from 1922Edith Wharton – The Glimpses of the Moon

roman uit 1922
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Inhoud roman: Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless. Gracefully moving through New York high society, they have the right connections but none of the wealth. When they inconveniently fall in love, Susy devises a plan. They will marry and spend a year flitting across Europe, staying in the homes of their rich friends and living off honeymoon gifts until either one of them meets a better, richer prospect…lees verder >

Marguerite Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling review en recensieMarguerite Young – Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

roman uit 1968
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Inhoud roman: This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young’s method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters—and the nature of reality…lees verder >

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Jennifer Niven – Meet the Newmans

Jennifer Niven Meet the Newmans review and information of the content of the novel by the American writer. MacMillan will publish the new Jennifer Niven novel, on January 15, 2026. 

Jennifer Niven Meet the Newmans reviews

  • “This story of a famous fiction TV family in 1960’s America and their subsequent unravelling is as thoughtful as it is entertaining. The writing thrums with energy, and the characters feel wholly believable. Definitely a recommend from me.” (Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things)
  • “Very unique and cleverly written. A big fat family drama and huge slice of social history in the 1960s when life for each family member pivots, attitudes are challenged and relationships are tested. This family is like a simmering pot on the stove, waiting to boil over. And when it does, it’s a recipe for drama.” (Jo Thomas, author of Love in Provence)

Jennifer Niven Meet the Newmans

Meet the Newmans

No family is perfect

  • Author: Jennifer Niven (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • To be released: 15 January 2026
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Jennifer Niven novel

Los Angeles, 1964.

For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America’s Favourite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and-white versions of themselves. But now the Sixties are in full swing, and the Newmans’ perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch.

Ratings are in free fall, as are the Newmans themselves. Del is keeping an explosive secret from his wife, and Dinah is slowly going numb. Steady, stable Guy is hiding the truth about his love life, and rock ‘n’ roll idol Shep may finally be in real trouble.

When Del is in a mysterious car accident, Dinah decides to take matters into her own hands. She hires Juliet Dunne, an outspoken young reporter, to help her write the final episode. But Dinah and Juliet have wildly different perspectives about what it means to be a woman, and a family, in 1964 America.

Can Dinah Newman bring her family together to change television history? Or will she be cancelled before she ever had the chance?Maybe it’s time for perfection to fall out of style…

Jennifer Niven was 14 May 1968 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ze is an American author of thirteen books, fiction and nonfiction, including All the Bright Places, which she also adapted for film. Her award-winning books have been translated into more than seventy-five languages and have sold upward of 3.5 million copies worldwide. Jennifer has loved television and film her whole life and has been lucky enough to develop projects with Netflix, Sony, ABC and Warner Bros. She divides her time between coastal Georgia and Los Angeles with her husband and literary cat.

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Sara Levine – The Hitch

Sara Levine The Hitch review and information of the content of the novel by the American writer. Roxane Gay Books will publish the new Sara Levine novel, on January 13, 2026. 

Sara Levine The Hitch reviews

  • “I was slobberingly, tail-waggingly delighted to read The Hitch—which is one of the most wildly comedic and unhinged novels I have ever encountered, while at the same time also being deeply relatable and strangely emotionally accurate. Not only was I laughing on almost every page, I was reading parts of it aloud to anybody around me who would listen. Give this book a trophy. It’s perfect.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author)
  • “A hilarious, madcap novel about our human obsession with getting life “right,” and how the best laid plans can go astray, especially when the dark haunted soul of a corgi gets involved. This is the book I’ll recommend to people as a test of their sense of humor: if they laugh at the corgi, the yogurt crisis, the hero who cannot recognize the obvious even when it’s chewing on her pant leg, then I’ll know we’re destined to be friends.” (Nathan Hill, author)
  • “Sara Levine’s long-awaited follow-up to cult classic Treasure Island!!! does not disappoint: we find in The Hitch a plot as dark and concise as those of Hilary Mantel’s early novels, but propelled by Levine’s signature prose, sharp and hilarious. In this pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Rose, equal parts Thomas Bernhard, Elaine Benes, and health guru, might be too well-informed to make an informed decision, but seeing her try is a true delight. A relentlessly funny novel about loneliness.” (Camille Bordas)

Sara Levine The Hitch

The Hitch

  • Author: Sara Levine (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
  • To be released: 13 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Sara Levine

From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.

Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When Rose offers to look after him while his parents visit Mexico for a week, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly agree, provided she understands the rules—routine, bedtime, homework—and doesn’t overstep. But when Rose’s Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose mistakes this behavior as repressed grief over the corgi’s death, but Nathan insists he isn’t grieving, and the dog isn’t dead. Her soul leaped into his body, and now she’s living inside him. Now Rose must banish the corgi from her nephew before the week ends and his parents return to collect their child.

With the ferocious absurdity of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch and the dark, brazen humor of Melissa Broder’s Death Valley, The Hitch is a tantalizingly bizarre novel about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the ill-fated strategy of micromanaging everything and everyone around you.

Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Robert Plunket – Love Junkie

Robert Plunket Love Junkie review and information about the American novel from 1992. Penguin Modern Classics will publish the reissue of the Robert Plunket novel, on March 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era. In a groovier universe, Plunket would have gone on publishing novels in addition to his journalism… As it is, the strength and singularity of the two books he did publish demand an accounting of their place in the American fiction of the 1980s and ’90s” (The Nation)
  • “Love Junkie is a comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain.” (The New York Times)
  • “Hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive!” (Lauren Oyler)

Robert Plunket Love Junkie

Love Junkie

  • Author: Robert Plunket (United States)
  • Book type: American 1992 novel
  • Publisher reissue: Penguin Modern Classics
  • To be released: March 5, 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99 / £ 7.99
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Blurb of the Robert Plunket novel

Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquée, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her real dreams and adventures begin.

A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie, first published in 1992, is reissued here in its full and naked glory.

Robert Plunket was born in 1945 in Greenville, Texas, but raised in Robert Plunket Love Junkie 1992 novel first editionHavana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.

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Lily King – Hart de minnaar

Lily King Hart de minnaar recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 20 mei 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Meulenhoff de Nederlandse vertaling van Heart the Lover de roman van Lily King de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Lily King Hart de minnaar recensies en reviews

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Hart de minnaar, de roman van Lily King, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Alleen Lily King kan een verhaal vertellen dat zo doordrenkt is van verdriet en toch zo vol hoop.” (Washington Post)
  • “Doordrenkt van verlangen, melancholie en de afrekening met de sterfelijkheid die ons allen te wachten staat. Kings schrijfstijl raakt je diep.” (The Times)
  • “Een roman van een indringende helderheid die verkent hoe een eerste liefde een heel leven vormgeeft.” (The Independent)

Lily King Hart de minnaar

Hart de minnaar

  • Auteur: Lily King (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Heart the Lover (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Inge Kok
  • Uitgever: Meulenhoff
  • Verschijnt: 20 mei 2026
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 22,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Lily King de Amerikaanse schrijfster

Een gevoelig en wijs liefdesverhaal vol verlangen, verlies en vergeving van meesterstilist Lily King, geschreven met de sublieme humor en emotionele gevoeligheid waar King veelvuldig om geprezen is

In het laatste jaar van haar studie 17e-eeuwse literatuur ontmoet de hoofdpersoon twee briljante medestudenten: Sam en Yash. Ze zijn beste vrienden en wonen buiten de campus in het elegante huis van een professor met sabbatical. De jongens nodigen haar uit in hun bedwelmende wereld van academische gedrevenheid, snelle grappen en rauwe kaartspellen. Ze noemen haar Jordan, en bij hen ontdekt ze de aantrekkingskracht van vriendschap, liefde en haar eigen intellectuele ambitie. Maar jeugdige passie is onvoorspelbaar, en al snel bevindt ze zich in het middelpunt van een geladen en complexe driehoeksverhouding. Naarmate de diploma-uitreiking nadert, zullen de keuzes die het drietal maakt hun levens voorgoed veranderen.

Decennia later lijken de kwetsbare dagen van Jordans jeugd achter haar te liggen. Maar wanneer een verrassingsbezoek en onverwacht nieuws het verleden met het heden doen botsen, keert ze terug naar een wereld die ze achter zich liet en moet ze de keuzes en teleurstellingen van haar jongere zelf onder ogen zien.

Lily King is geboren in 1965 en groeide op in Massachusetts. Ze is de bekroonde auteur van vijf romans. Haar roman Euphoria uit 2014 won de Kirkus Award, de New England Book Award en was finalist voor de National Book Critics Award, en het werd door The New York Times Book Review uitgeroepen tot een van de 10 beste boeken van 2014. Ze woont in Portland, Maine.

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Gabriel Tallent – Crux

Gabriel Tallent Crux review and information of the content of new novel by the American writer. Penguin Fig Tree will publish the second Gabriel Tallent novel on February 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Gabriel Tallent Crux reviews

  • “Profound and stunning … It will make you question yourself and every one of your beliefs.” (Liz Nugent, author)
  • “One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship between a young man and a young woman … Exciting and tension filled.” (Stephen King)
  • “A breathtaking, thrilling and unforgettable story of friendship, of hopes and dreams against a reality so harsh it broke my hear.” (Chris Whitaker)

Gabriel Tallent Crux

Crux

  • Author: Gabriel Tallent (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree
  • To be released: February 5, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback /  ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 /  £ 8.99 /  £ 16.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the secons Gabriel Tallent novel

A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations: the explosive second novel from the bestselling author of My Absolute Darling.

Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park, one of the world’s great rock climbing meccas. Their mothers had once been teenage waitresses and best friends until their paths diverged. Now Dan’s mother spends her days locked in her room, her dreams squandered and all her hopes pinned on getting her precociously clever son out of town and away to university.

Tamma’s mother holds no such ambition for her mouthy, snaggle-toothed, truant-playing, queer younger daughter, who everyone but Dan believes to be a troublemaker and no-hoper. But Tamma and Dan are fuelled by dreams of becoming legendary rock climbers, of devoting their lives to summiting the most challenging climbs and defying all the expectations, both good and bad, that others have for them.

Climbing, each morning at sun-up, on cliff faces that test their bodies to the limit, is where their friendship is forged. It’s also the one thing that gives them hope. But as their final year of high school unfolds and their climbs become ever more dangerous, and their home lives ever more extreme, it’s inevitable that something is going to snap.

Gabriel Tallent was born in 1987 in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his B.A. from Willamette University in 2010, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. In 2027 his debut novel My Absolute Darling was published. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and three children.

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Lionel Shriver – A Better Life

Lionel Shriver A Better Life review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Harper Collins will publish the Lionel Shriver novel on February 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Lionel Shriver A Better Life

A Better Life

  • Author: Lionel Shriver (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • To be released: February 10, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 27.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Lionel Shriver novel

In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.”

As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general—and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.

Based loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.

Lionel Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. She has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including, The Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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Ben Lerner – Transcription

Ben Lerner Transcription review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Granta Books will publish the Ben Lerner novel, on April 9, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Transcription

  • Author: Ben Lerner (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • To be released: April 9, 2026
  • Length: 144 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Ben Lerner novel

A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device – a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.

Ben Lerner was born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

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Kathryn Stockett – De Calamiteitenclub

Kathryn Stockett De Calamiteitenclub recensie, review en informatie over de nieuwe historische roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 5 mei 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Boekerij de Nederlandse vertaling van The Calamity Club de nieuwe roman van Kathryn Stockett, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

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De Calamiteitenclub

  • Auteur: Kathryn Stockett (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: The Calamity Club (5 mei 2026)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Carolien Metaal, Marion Drolsbach
  • Uitgever: Boekerij
  • Verschijnt: 5 mei 2026
  • Omvang: 832 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Kathryn Stockett

In De calamiteitenclub keert Stockett terug naar Mississippi en stelt ze wederom een maatschappelijk-politieke kwestie aan de kaak: het lot van hen die door de maatschappij als ‘zwakzinnig’ werden bestempeld.

Mississippi, 1933. Birdie is met haar vierentwintig jaar al bijna een oude vrijster. Na het overlijden van haar vader rust de zorg voor haar moeder en oma grotendeels op haar schouders. De familie heeft een huurachterstand en zal snel aan geld moeten komen om niet uit hun huis te worden gezet. Birdie wordt op de trein gezet met een heldere opdracht: geld loskrijgen van Frances, haar zus die sinds haar huwelijk met een rijke man al het contact met haar familie heeft verbroken.

Frances blijkt gelukkig bereid Birdie te helpen, maar vraagt haar in de tussentijd bij te springen in een opvangtehuis voor meisjes waar Frances vrijwilligerswerk doet. Birdie schrikt van de erbarmelijke omstandigheden in het tehuis en sluit een vriendschap met de elfjarige Meg. Meg is door haar moeder afgestaan, maar aan de omstandigheden waaronder dat is gebeurd, lijkt iets niet te kloppen. Welke geheimen verbergt het tehuis?

Terwijl de zomer overgaat in de herfst en de Grote Depressie zijn greep op de maatschappij verstevigt, raakt Birdie er steeds meer van overtuigd dat de meisjes in het tehuis, en hun onzichtbare moeders, een groot onrecht is aangedaan. En dat Meg en zij misschien wel de enigen zijn die daar iets aan kunnen doen.

Kathryn Stockett is geboren op 6 februari 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, waar ze ook opgroeide. Haar debuut, Een keukenmeidenroman, is wereldwijd meer dan 15 miljoen keer verkocht, is in 35 talen vertaald en werd in 2011 verfilmd met Viola Davis en Emma Stone in de hoofdrollen. De calamiteitenclub is haar langverwachte tweede boek.

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Elizabeth Strout – Wat ongezegd blijft

Elizabeth Strout Wat ongezegd blijft recensie, review en informatie over de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 5 mei 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Atlas Contact de Nederlandse vertaling van The Things We Never Say, de roman van Elizabeth Strout de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Elizabeth Strout Wat ongezegd blijft recensies en reviews

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Wat ongezegd blijft

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Strout (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: The Things We Never Say (5 mei 2026)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Lucie van Rooijen
  • Uitgever: Atlas Contact
  • Verschijnt: 5 mei 2026
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe Elizabeth Strout roman

Van de bestsellerauteur van Olive Kitteridge en Ik heet Lucy Barton: invoelende nieuwe roman over een geliefde leraar op een kruispunt in zijn leven.

Artie Dam heeft een geheim. De geliefde leraar geschiedenis, gelukkig getrouwde echtgenoot en zorgzame vader van een volwassen zoon, is eenzaam. En de gedachte dat hij er maar beter een einde aan kan maken kan hij niet uit zijn hoofd zetten. Maar een bijna fataal bootongeluk plaatst het leven van Artie, zijn band met zijn dierbaren en zijn blik op de wereld in een heel ander perspectief. Wat ongezegd blijft is het diepmenselijke verhaal van een man die een tweede kans krijgt in het leven, en deze met beide handen moet leren aangrijpen.

Elizabeth Strout is geboren op 6 januari 1956 in Portland, Maine, in de Verenigde Staten. Ze schreef onder andere de romans Amy en Isabelle, haar debuutroman, Olive Kitteridge, dat bekroond werd met de Pulitzerprijs, Ik heet Lucy Barton  en Niets is onmogelijk. werd met de Pulitzerprijs bekroond en door HBO tot een miniserie gemaakt. In 2021 verscheen Het verhaal van William, die op de shortlist stond van de Booker Prize. In 2022 volgde Lucy aan zee. Van de Nederlandstalige Lucy Barton­serie zijn er inmiddels meer dan 25.000 exemplaren verkocht.

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