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Beste western romans

Beste western romans en wildwestromans. Waaraan kun je  en western roman of wildwestroman herkennen? Welke schrijvers, schrijfsters of auteurs hebben dit soort romans geschreven? Wat zijn de beste romans over het Wilde Westen van Amerika?

Waaraan kun je een western roman of wildwestroman herkennen?

Het antwoord op deze vraag is vrij simpel. Dit soort romans kenmerken zich doordat het verhaal zich afspeelt in het Wilde Westen van Amerika tussen de jaren 1860 tot 1900. Er zijn trouwens ook romans die je min of meer tot het genre kunt rekeningen maar zich toch later in de Verenigde Staten afspelen maar omdat ze verder alle kenmerken in zich dragen toch tot het genre worden gerekend.

Wat zijn de beste western romans en wildwestroman?

Dit type roman dat in het Engels vaak wordt aangeduid met Western fiction of Western novel, ontstond aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw met de opkomst van de zogenaamde dime novels, in het Nederlands vaak aangeduid met drie stuiver romans. in de Verenigde Staten. Dit waren vrij korte en goedkoop geproduceerde boekjes die vooral dienden als vermaak. Wat later in de twintigste eeuw gingen ook bekende schrijvers western romans schrijven waardoor de kwaliteit omhoog ging. De plot van deze boeken kreeg meer gelaagdheid en de karakters meer diepgang.

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark first editionWilla 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 >

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming reviewElmore Leonard – Valdez Is Coming

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1970
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
Valdez is Coming is a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer – and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever…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 >

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 >

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

Amerikaanse 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 >

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: Colorado (T. Brandon, Unsplash)

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Princess Joy L. Perry – This Here Is Love

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company de debuutroman van Princess Joy L. Perry, de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love review en recensie

  • “It’s hard to believe that this is Perry’s first novel, so effectively does it pull readers deep into the lives of its evolving, powerful, multifaceted characters.” (Library Journal)
  • “In This Here Is Love, Princess Joy L. Perry refuses to shy away from the cruelties of surviving the realities of seventeenth-century America and has charted the terrible truths of her characters’ impossible choices—even as they map a journey toward their own freedom, their futures, their shared humanity. In these pages, we have love rooted and rebuilt in the land that stripped these compelling characters of almost all they have, and a blueprint for how hope may still move us forward.” (DéLana R. A. Dameron)
  • “A luscious storyteller, Perry brings to light the profound moral and emotional dilemmas her characters face, making the reader feel the weight of their impossible choices and everyday courage. A fierce and luminous debut.” (Sheri Reynolds)

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love

This Here Is Love

  • Auteur: Princess Joy L. Perry (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs:  $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Princess Joy L. Perry

As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America’s character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.

Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She stands as the lone bulwark between her mother and irreparable despair, her mother’s only possibility of hope, as Bless reshapes the boundaries of love.

David is a helping child and a solace to his parents, and he gave a purpose to their trials. His survival hinges on his mother’s shrewd intellect and ferocious fight, but his sustenance is his freed Black father’s dream of emancipation for the entire family.

Jack Dane, a Scots-Irish boy, sails to Britain’s colonies when his father sells him into indentured servitude as an escape from poverty. There Jack learns from the rich the value of each person’s life.

A breathtaking, haunting, and epic saga, This Here Is Love intimately intertwines us with these beautifully drawn, unforgettable American characters. Bless, taken to serve the slaveowner’s daughter, must decide where she belongs: with the enslaved or above them. David, sold away from his people, retreats into himself even as he yearns to unite with others. Jack, acting impetuously, changes his fortune, but will doing so sacrifice his humanity?

All three come together on Jack’s land. As they face and challenge each other, they will relinquish and remake beliefs about family and freedom, even as they confront the limits of love.

Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About Skin, African American Review, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Victor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en advocaat. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press het boek en debuut van Victor Suthammanont. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review en recensie

  • “Cerebral, sexy, and provocative, Hollow Spaces is a can’t-put-down exploration of marriage, infidelity, and murder. Every page is steeped in sophisticated commentary on the far reaching effects of violence. A smart, compelling read that pays particular attention to the nuances of family and what both brings people together and tears them apart.” (Lo Patrick)
  • “Brennan and Hunter Lo, the children of a lawyer who was found innocent of murder but saw his life destroyed anyway, have spent their lives avoiding all sorts of truths, and each other. Hollow Spaces is the twisty, compelling, well-written, and human story of what happens when they join together to understand the father they lost, and the crime that ripped their lives apart.” (Jamie Harrison)

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces

Hollow Spaces

  • Auteur: Victor Suthammanont (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het debuut van Victor Suthammanont

The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation,  Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

Victor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City.

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Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The The Corrections van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Franzen. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De correcties.

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review en recensie

  • “A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century.” (Elle)
  • “Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent.” (The Guardian)
  • “A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight.”  (Financial Times)
  • “A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny.” (Independent)
  • “Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture.” (Don DeLillo)

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

The Corrections

  • Auteur: Jonathan Franzen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • National Book Award for Fiction 2001
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Franzen uit 2001

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.

Jonathan Franzen is born 17 August 1957 in Western Springs, The Corrections Jonathan Franzen novel from 2001 first editionIllinois in the United States. He isthe author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, Freedom and Crossroads. and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. In 1996, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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Susan Choi – Flashlight

Susan Choi Flashlight review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 10 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Susan Choi die gekozen is op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Susan Choi Flashlight review en recensie

  • “Flashlight is a sprawling novel that weaves stories of national upheavals with those of Louisa, her Korean Japanese father, Serk, and Anne, her American mother. Evolving from the uncertainties surrounding Serk’s disappearance, it is a riveting exploration of identity, hidden truths, race, and national belonging. In this ambitious book that deftly criss-crosses continents and decades, Susan Choi balances historical tensions and intimate dramas with remarkable elegance. We admired the shifts and layers of Flashlight’s narrative, which ultimately reveal a story that is intricate, surprising, and profound.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “Choi is one of contemporary literature’s great demolition artists, and her emotional foundations hold. She can build as well as she detonates. Choi gives her cast the room they need to live; to be more than vessels for political wrangling… Like the best of those early-00s novels, Flashlight is all kinds of big: capacious of intent and scope and language and swagger.” (Beejay Silcox, Guardian)
  • “Flashlight is severely allergic to summary, so watch what you read about it. Even categorizing this story as a mystery risks prematurely exposing the novel’s intricate structure to too much light. It’s catholic in its genre, shifting deftly from domestic drama to international thriller, from academic satire to bildungsroman. But what can be safely revealed is that Choi is writing about people who struggle and fail to find a stable sense of identity in a shifting world conspiring against them.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)

Susan Choi Flashlight

Flashlight

  • Auteur: Susan Choi (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 10 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schijfster Susan Choi

The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime.

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.

Susan Choi was born on 28 januari 1969 in South Bend, Indiana in the United States. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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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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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Beste Romans

John Fante – Wait Until Spring, Bandini

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1938. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster John Fante en deel  van het Bandini kwartet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review en recensie

  • “Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time.” (Time Literary Supplement)
  • “Wait Until Spring, Bandini is not merely a novel; it’s an enduring testament to life’s raw truths, a timeless chronicle of human vulnerability and resilience, proving once and for all that genuine literature comes not from refinement but from honesty, from courageously confronting the brutal, beautiful mess of being alive.” (Independent Review of Books)

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Bandini Quartet

  • Auteur: John Fante (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1938
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cannongate Canons
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1938 van John Fante

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.
With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado on 8 April 1909. He migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante’s literary fiction was full of Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante novel from 1938 first editiontorn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill – collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). John Fante died on 8 May 1983 in Los Angeles, California, due to diabetes-related complications at the age of 74. He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death.

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Ben Markovitz – The Rest of Our Lives

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de in Texas geboren Britse schrijver. Op 27 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de nieuwe roman van schrijver Benjamin Markovitz. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review en recensie

  • “When Tom Layward’s wife cheated on him, he stayed for the children but promised to leave when his youngest turned eighteen. Twelve years later, Tom drops his daughter off at college, but instead of driving back to New York he heads west. What follows is a remarkably satisfying road trip full of strangers, friends, and self-discovery. It’s clear author Ben Markovits has spent time teaching. This novel speaks like a much-loved professor, one whose classes have a terribly long waitlist. It’s matter of fact, effortlessly warm, and it uses the smallest parts of human behaviour to uphold bigger themes, like mortality, sickness, and love. The Rest of Our Lives is a novel of sincerity and precision. We found it difficult to put it down.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “We all fear irrelevance as technology and society outpace us, and as the young outgrow us. Yet, reading Ben Markovits’s gentle, powerful and funny novel, we are reminded that family love can ground us and keep us together.” (Philip Womack, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “The Rest of Our Lives is another quiet triumph, an elegant, devastating book that lays bare the way time calcifies our failures, how we find ourselves trapped not by circumstance but by the slow erosion of the will to escape. Markovits has long been one of our most under-appreciated novelists; this is yet more proof that he deserves far greater recognition.” (Alex Preston, Guardian)

Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of Our Lives

  • Auteur: Ben Markovitz (Engeland, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Verschijnt: 27 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Ben Markovitz

When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, the synopsis reads, ‘he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife.

So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son – en route, maybe, to his father’s grave in California. Pitch perfect, quietly exhilarating and moving, The Rest of Our Lives is a novel about family, marriage and those moments which may come to define us.

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. His novels include Either Side of Winter, You Don’t Have to Live Like This, Christmas in Austin, and, most recently, The Sidekick. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and the New York Times, among others. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Katie Yee – Maggie

Katie Yee Maggie review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij S&S/Summit Books de debuutroman van Katie Yee, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Katie Yee Maggie review en recensie

  • “Feels pleasurably like clicking through the back archives of a webcomic or lingering over lunch wine with an old friend. As with Nora Ephron’s Heartburn…you read Maggie to spend time with its author.” (Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post)
  • “Through impeccably witty fragmented reflections and in just under 200 pages, Yee transforms life’s most brutal bombshells into spectacular fireworks, glittering with humor, insight, and a dazzling display of best friendship against the darkest of backdrops.” (Charley Burlock, Oprah Daily)
  • “In this comedic and heartbreaking debut novel, the narrator confronts her grief head-on, from naming the growing tumor inside of her Maggie to developing a user manual guide for her ex’s new woman.” (Harper’s Bazaar)

Katie Yee Maggie

Maggie

or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

  • Auteur: Katie Yee (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: S&S/Summit Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 12,99 / $ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Katie Yee

A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel that grapples with grief, motherhood, and myths.

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie.

A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.

Unfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor), getting acquainted with her body’s new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a “Guide to My Husband: A User’s Manual” for Maggie (the other woman), hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husband’s whims and quirks. She turns her children’s bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture—and to maybe save herself in the process.

In the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephron’s hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.

Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, The Believer, the Washington Square Review, Triangle House, Epiphany, and Literary Hub. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog, Ollie.

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Ivonne Lamazares – The Tilting House

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House review, recensie en informatie roman van de op Cuba geboren Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de nieuwe roman van de Cubaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster Ivonne Lamazares. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House review en recensie

  • “Filled with the complexity of history and the immigrant experience, The Tilting House is a globetrotting drama that explores the limits of family loyalty.” (Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books)
  • “The Tilting House is a lyrical, haunting exploration of exile and belonging, memory and betrayal, and the inescapable pull of family and legacy. Against the backdrop of a Cuba still reckoning with the upheaval of revolution, Ivonne Lamazares crafts a story of love and loss, following the unforgettable Yuri—a young woman caught between the ghosts of history and the promise of an uncertain future. With exquisite prose and unflinching insight, The Tilting House introduces a cast of exiles and dreamers, survivors and schemers, artists and agitators, all bound by the weight of the past and the search for home in a world forever shaped by destiny.” (Alex Espinoza)

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House

The Tilting House

  • Auteur: Ivonne Lamazares (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Cuba roman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpont Press
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Cuba van Ivonne Lamazares

Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of political upheaval.

In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, is living with her strict, religious aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty-four-year-old artist, arrives from the United States with a shocking revelation. She claims to be Yuri’s sister, insisting that she and Yuri share a mother, and that Ruth essentially kidnapped her when she sent her into exile against her will through Operation Pedro Pan. Forced to grow up in orphanages, Mariela spent the past three decades in the United States and has returned to Cuba to reclaim her roots, make art, and perhaps seek vengeance on Ruth. Yuri is both fascinated and repulsed by the young, glamorous, and aggrieved Mariela. When Ruth is jailed for unknown charges, Yuri falls further into Mariela’s mercurial orbit.

Spanning two countries and three decades, The Tilting House explores identity and family loyalty, the effects of losing one’s mother and motherland, the scars of political and historical upheaval, and an immigrant’s complex quest both to return “home” and to be free from the past. Through her long journey, Yuri comes to understand that the past cannot be fully recovered, or fully escaped, even as she approaches the possibility of compassion for Mariela, for Ruth, for others, and for herself.

Ivonne Lamazares was born in Havana. She left Cuba at the age of thirteen and settled in Florida. Her first novel, The Sugar Island, was translated into seven languages. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Latina magazine, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. Lamazares is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. She lives in Miami and teaches writing at Miami Dade College.

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