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Brigitte Dale – The Good Daughters

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters review and information of the content of the first novel by the American author and historian. Pegasus Books will publish the Brigitte Dale historical novel about the Sufragettes in London, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the novel, the author and the publication.

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters review

  • “The Good Daughters brings fresh energy to the plight of the Suffragettes and fight for women’s right to vote. This retelling of the battle for women’s votes sheds light on another side of the Suffragette movement. It contrasts the pressures each of the characters face to conform, and be so-called ‘good daughters,’ with the need to stand up for oneself and their collective rights. The narrative also alludes to the gritty reality that the Suffragettes faced at the hands of the police…Together, they achieve more than they ever thought they could.” (Jessica Mills, author of The English Chemist)
  • “Dale’s beautifully written novel drew me right in—it was almost as if I were marching right along with her vibrant cast of characters in their fight for suffrage. The depth and nuance of the storytelling, the vivid portrayal of the injustices suffered, and the power of women determined to bring about change build to a crescendo that feels fiercely relevant today. I loved it.” (Fiona Davis, athor of The Stolen Queen and The Lions of Fith Avenue)
  • “Knowing the price many paid is an essential piece of history, powerfully communicated in this engaging novel” (Booklist)
  • “The Good Daughters is a powerful novel inspired by the real women who risked everything to fight for women’s voting rights. With vivid insight to the dangers, the persecution, the judgement, and terror these women faced, the story reflects just how steep the stakes could be. Dale’s immense research and atmospheric writing shines in this must-read debut.” (Madeline Martin, author of The Booklover’s Library)

Brigitte Dale The Good Daughters

The Good Daughters

  • Author: Brigitte Dale (United States)
  • Book type: historical novel about the Suffragettes
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover/ ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.95 / $ 18.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the novel by Brigitte Dale

A moving and vivid story of three suffragettes in London and the battle for equality that tests the strength of their will and the bonds of their friendship.

In 1912, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future.

Charlotte, disappointed to discover that college isn’t the key to the freedom she longed for, shocks her family when she moves to London and joins a group of suffragettes willing to upend social norms for the vote. Aristocratic Beatrice, with a law degree she legally can’t put into practice and a fiancé she’s not particularly excited to marry, escapes to London to spend her last months of unmarried life with the suffragettes, and falls deeply—and dangerously—into forbidden love. Emily, the daughter of the warden of the infamous Holloway Jail, grieves her mother and saves her wages for a better life outside the prison’s walls. Her best chance at escaping the drudgery of her life is to stay out of trouble, but when the suffragettes land in her father’s cells, she must consider risking not only her family’s livelihood, but her own future.

With the dangerous stakes of the suffrage campaign becoming a fight for the women’s bodies and lives, they enter a treacherous world where the laws and justice system are stacked against them. They face violent protests, hunger strikes, and brutal forced feedings, and the women must decide how much they are willing to risk for their freedom and for each other.

Brigitte Dale is an American author, editor, and historian. She earned her master’s degree in women’s history at Yale and has written about suffragettes and feminist history in the anthology Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage, and Screen (Routledge); Electric Literature; Medium; and other publications. She is an assistant editor at St. Martin’s Press and her bookstagram.

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Sanam Mahloudji – De Perzen

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman. Op 29 september 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van The Persians, de familieroman van Sanam Mahloudji, de Amerikaanse schrijfster die in Teheran, Iran geboren is. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensie

  • “Mahloudji hoort thuis tussen zwaargewichten als Elif Shafak, Abraham Verghese en Min Jin Lee.” (Guardian)
  • “Prachtig… Ik heb genoten van de mooie karakteriseringen, de diepgaande inzichten en het levendige proza.” (Bernadine Evaristo)
  • “Weergaloos! Intens en rijkgeschakeerd.” (Sarah Winman)

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen

De Perzen

  • Auteur: Sanam Mahloudji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over Iran
  • Origineel: The Persians (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Madelon Janse
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 29 september 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99 / € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Sanam Mahloudji

De statige matriarch Elizabeth bleef in Iran na de revolutie. Alleen haar nichtje Niaz bezoekt haar nog. Haar dochters, de flamboyante zakenvrouw Shirin, en Seema, een teleurgestelde huisvrouw, proberen in de VS een leven op te bouwen. Kleindochter Bita, rechtenstudent in New York, is op zoek naar een zinvoller leven. Wanneer hun jaarlijkse skivakantie in Aspen uitloopt op een ramp met Shirin als schaamteloos middelpunt, barst hun flinterdunne laagje vernis. Shirin beseft dat het tijd is met hun Iraanse verleden in het reine te komen. Pas dan kunnen ze in de VS een nieuw thuis vinden.

De Perzen is een hartverscheurende en filosofische roman tegen de achtergrond van 80 jaar geschiedenis: van Iran in de jaren 40 tot het heden in de Verenigde Staten.

Sanam Mahloudji groeide op in Los Angeles nadat haar ouders Teheran verlieten tijdens de Iraanse Revolutie. Ze won de Pushcart Prize en werd genomineerd voor een PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Nu woont ze in Londen.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Antigua & Barbuda, coming-of-age roman

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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Shirley Jackson – Hangsaman

Shirley Jackson Hangsaman review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse gothic novel uit 1951. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Hangsaman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Shirley Jackson. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Shirley Jackson Hangsaman review en recensie

  • “The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable … It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse.” (A.M. Homes)
  • “Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.” (Dorothy Parker)
  • “Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written.” (Donna Tartt)

Shirley Jackson Hangsaman

Hangsaman

  • Auteur: Shirley Jackson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1951, gothic novel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 3,99 / £ 13,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1951 van Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student.

Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.

Shirley Jackson was born on 14 December 1916 in San Francisco, California. When her short story, The Lottery, was first published in Hangsaman Shirley Jackson 1951 novel first editionthe New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House (De geesten van Hill House) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (We hebben altijd in een kasteel gewoond), widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died on 8 August 1965 in North Bennington, Vermont, at the age of 48, due to a heart condition.

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Elizabeth Strout – Amy en Isabelle

Elizabeth Strout Amy en Isabelle recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 19 september 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Atlas Contact de Nederlandse vertaling van Amy and Isabelle de debuutroman uit 1998 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Elizabeth Strout. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Elizabeth Strout Amy en Isabelle recensie

  • “Een roman vol schitterende integriteit en humor, over de moed en moeilijke keuzes van wat we het gewone leven noemen.” (Alice Munro)

Elizabeth Strout Amy en Isabelle

Amy en Isabelle

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Strout (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Origineel: Amy and Isabelle (1998)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Tineke Funhoff
  • Uitgever: Atlas Contact
  • Verschijnt: 19 september 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 17,50 / € 7,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van Elizabeth Strout

In ‘Amy en Isabelle’ van Elisabeth Strout hebben Isabelle en haar zestienjarige dochter Amy een moeizame, maar hechte relatie. Maar als Amy betrapt wordt met haar wiskundeleraar, reageert haar moeder furieus. Het schandaal dat hun kleine stadje op zijn kop zet confronteert Isabelle met haar schaamte over haar eigen verleden. En terwijl Amy zich terugtrekt, lijkt de afstand tussen hen onoverbrugbaar te worden.

Amy en Isabelle, de debuutroman van Elizabeth Strout, is een prachtig geschreven, genuanceerd portret van moeder en dochter, maar ook van de kleine gemeenschap waarin ze leven.

Elizabeth Strout is geboren op 6 januari 1956 in Portland, Maine, in de Verenigde Staten. Ze schreef onder andere de romans 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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Geneeskunde, Gezondheid, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Mary Roach – Replaceable You

Mary Roach Replaceable You review, recensie en informatie boek over avonturen in de menselijke anatomie. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company het nieuwe boek van Mary Roach de Amerikaanse schrijfster van populair wetenschappelijke boeken. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Mary Roach Replaceable You review en recensie

  • “We are all replaceable to some degree or another . . . with the exception of Mary Roach. There is no one and nothing like her—singular, bizarre, dedicated, passionate, fascinating. Her writing traffics at the unusual intersection of science, storytelling, and humor. That is a very tricky intersection to navigate, and no one does it as masterfully or consistently as she. I devour everything she writes.” (John Alexander, actor and director)
  • “In her brilliant (and brilliantly funny book) Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the puzzle of the human body, the way we can assemble and reassemble the very human pieces into different versions of who we are and how we work. The result is intriguing, compassionate, wise and—as with all her books—addictively readable. Or to put this another way: Don’t miss it.” (Deborag Blum, author)

Mary Roach Replaceable You

Replaceable You

Adventures in Human Anatomy

  • Auteur: Mary Roach (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: populair wetenschappelijk boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Mary Roach

From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.

The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available—sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?

In Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?

Roach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a “superclean” xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell “hair nursery” in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.

Irrepressible and accessible, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.

Mary Roach is born in 1959 in Hanover New Hampshire in the United States. She isthe author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.

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American Crime Novel, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Amerikaanse thrillers, Cozy crime thriller

Rita Mae Brown – Time Will Tell

Rita Mae Brown Time Will Tell review and information of the content of the new cozy crime novel by the American author. Bantam will publish the new Rita Mae Brown novel, on october 14, 2025. 

Rita Mae Brown Time Will Tell review

  • “Cunning foxes, sensible hounds, and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Rita Mae Brown Time Will Tell

Time Will Tell

  • Author: Rita Mae Brouw (United States)
  • Book type: American cozy crime novel
  • Publisher: Bantam
  • Released: 14 October 2025
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 18.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the crime novel by Rita Mae Brown

Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, “Sister” Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler’s two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can’t help but get involved.

Days later, a young man is murdered, one with seemingly no connection to the pricey jewelry or a life of crime. His mother is distraught, and Sister vows to find the murderer. But when hounds on the hunt discover a truck covered in blood – with no body in sight – she quickly realizes she’s in over her head with a cunning and clever adversary. Can she find the link and stop the murderer before they strike again? Only time will tell.

Rita Mae Brown was born 8 November 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; the Runnymede novels, including Six of One and Cakewalk; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day;and many other books. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, and is a Master of Foxhounds and the huntsman.

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Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearfull Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie, review en informatie horrorroman uit 2009 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en kunstenares. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de thriller van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige Audrey Niffenegger. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de horrorthriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie en review

  • “A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story.” (Tatler)
  • “What is really satisfying about this novel, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief , the transforming power of love.” (Daily Telegraph)
  • “An original, outrageous, and throroughly enjoyable ghost story.” (Independent)

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry

Her Fearfull Symmetry

  • Auteur: Audrey Niffenegger (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse horror uit 2009
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 496 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de horrorroman van Audrey Niffenegger

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed.

The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn’t seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

Audrey Niffenegger is on 13 Juni 1963 in South Haven, Michigan in the United States. She is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

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Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie, review en informatie roman over slavernij uit 1991. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics in de reeks Weird Girls de heruitgave van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Jewelle Gomez. 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.

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie en review

  • “A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined.” (Guardian)
  • “The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in 1991… Gomez’s characters are rooted in historical reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditonal models of family, identity and literary genre.” (Sarah Waters)
  • “Groundbraking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them – communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.” (Emma Donaghue)

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories

The Gilda Stories

  • Auteur: Jewelle Gomez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: futuristische roman uit 1991, slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang; 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Winnaar Lambda Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jewelle Gomez

In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things…

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. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?

Jewelle Gomez is born on 11 September 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a writer, activist and the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories. Her other publications include The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears and Oral Tradition. Formerly the executive director of the Poetry Center and the American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, she has also worked in philanthropy for many years. She is the former director of the literature programme at the New York State Council on the Arts, the director of Grants and Community Initiatives for Horizon and the President of the San Francisco Library Commission. She lives in San Francisco.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Fantasyboeken, Fantasyschrijvers, Mythologische roman

R.F. Kuang – Katabasis

R.F. Kuang Katabasis recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de fantasyroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 26 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij The House of Books de Nederlandse vertaling van de nieuwe mythologische fantasyroman van R.F. Kuang, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

R.F. Kuang Katabasis recensie

  • “Kuang verweeft oude mythologie met moderne academische ideeën en schept zo een meeslepende wereld waarin magie bestudeerd en beheerst kan worden zoals elke andere wetenschap. De reis van Alice en Peter door de onderwereld is tegelijk een scherpe kritiek op de universiteitscultuur en een ode aan het leren om het leren. Uiteindelijk herinnert Kuang ons eraan dat er meer is in het leven – en in de dood – dan alleen maar werken.” (The Atlantic)

R.F. Kuang Katabasis

Katabasis

  • Auteur: R.F. Kuang (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, fantasyroman
  • Origineel: Katabasis (26 augustus 2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Hi-en Montijn
  • Uitgever: The House of Books
  • Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van R.F. Kuang

Katabasis, zelfstandig naamwoord, Oudgrieks: Het verhaal van een held die afdaalt naar de onderwereld

Doctoraatstudente Alice Law heeft alles opgeofferd om samen te werken met professor Grimes, de briljantste magiër aan Cambridge. Maar dan sterft hij in een magisch ongeluk dat háár schuld is.

Nu zit Grimes in de Hel, en Alice moet hem terughalen. Niet uit loyaliteit, maar omdat zijn aanbeveling haar toekomst bepaalt. En zelfs de dood zal haar niet weerhouden haar dromen na te jagen… Net zomin als haar academische rivaal, Peter Murdoch, die precies hetzelfde plan heeft.

De Hel binnengaan is niet zo moeilijk. Maar een ziel redden én heelhuids terugkeren? Dat is een heel ander verhaal.

Rebecca F. Kuang is geboren op 29 mei 1996 in Guangzhou, China. Ze is een Amerikaanse auteur van Chinese afkomst die inmiddels meerdere bekroonde  romans heeft gepubliceerd. Bovendien heeft ze een diploma in Chinese Studies van Cambridge en in Hedendaagse Chinese Studies van Oxford; momenteel streeft ze een PhD na in Oost-Aziatische Taal- en Letterkunde aan Yale. Katabasis is na Yellowface een terugkeer naar het genre waarin ze groot werd: fantasy.

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