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Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn review and information about the 1943 American novel. In 1943, American author Betty Smith’s novel was published. Here you can read information about the novel’s content, reception, reviews and author.

Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reviews

  • “A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life … If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience… It is a poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships.” (New York Times)
  • “One of the books of the century.” (New York Public Library)

Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • Author: Betty Smith (United States)
  • Book type: 1943 American novel
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 9.99
  • Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1943 novel by Betty Smith

Betty Smith’s debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively American novels.

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. But amid the poverty and suffering among the poor of Brooklyn, there is hope, and the prospect of a brighter future.

Betty Smith was born December 15, 1896 in Brooklyn. New York A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 novel first editionCity as  Elisabeth Lillian Wehner. She published four novels: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), Tomorrow Will Be Better (1947), Maggie-Now (1958) and, Joy in the Morning (1963). She also wrote two plays: Jonica Stars (1930) and Becomes A Woman, originally titled Francie Nolan (1931). She died in died of pneumonia in Shelton, Connecticut on January 17, 1972 in Shelton, Connecticut, at the age of 75.

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Zelda Fitzgerald – Save Me the Waltz

Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me the Waltz review and information about the 1932 American novel. In 1932, American author Zelda Fitzgerald’s only novel was published. Here you can read information about the novel’s content, reception, reviews and author.

Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me the Waltz reviews

  • “The only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for het defeats.” (Matthew Bruccoli)
  • “A strangely evocative novel, episodic in structure, painterly in its description, almost hallucinatory in overall effect.” (The New York Times)

Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me the Waltz

Save Me the Waltz

  • Author: Zelda Fitzgerald (United States)
  • Book type: 1932 American novel
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 9.99
  • Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1932 novel by Zelda Fitzgerald

“We couldn’t go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.”

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.

In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.

Zelda Fitzgerald was born July 24, 1900,  in Montgomery, Alabama, Save Me the Waltz Zelda Fitzgerald 1932 novel first editionin the United States was an American writer and artist, best known for personifying the carefree ideals of the 1920s flapper and for her tumultuous marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Save Me the Waltz was the only novel she wrote and was published during her lifetime. She died March 10, 1948, at the age of 47 in the Highlight Mental Hospital Asheville, North Carolina during a fire.

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Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies

Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies review and information about the 1943 American novel. In 1943, American author Jane Bowles’ only novel was published. Here you can read information about the novel’s content, reception, reviews and author.

Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies reviews

  • “My favourite book. I can”t think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic.” (Tennessee Williams)
  • “Jane Bowles”s literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own.” (The New Yorker)
  • “The book I give as a gift. It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit.” (Sheila Heti)
  • “A modernist cult classic.” (Guardian)

Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies

Two Serious Ladies

  • Author: Jane Bowles (United States)
  • Book type: American novel from 1943
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Essentials
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 9.99
  • Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1943 novel by Jane Bowles

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.

For Mrs Copperfield – a trip to Panama, where she abandons her husband for love of a local prostitute. For Miss Goering – a move to a squalid little house on an island and a series of sordid encounters with strangers. Both go to pieces -and both realise this is something they’ve wanted to do for years.

Jane Bowles was born as born Jane Sydney Auer, February 22, 1917 Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies 1943 novel first editionin New York City. She has long had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of this century. She lived in Tangier, Morocco, with her husband, writer Paul Bowles, from 1952 until her death on May 4, 1973 in a clinic in Málaga, Spain at the age of 56. She was primarily a playwright and Two Serious Ladies was her only novel.

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Gish Jen – Bad Bad Girl

Gish Jen Bad Bad Girl review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author of Chinese descent. St. Martin’s Press will publish the new Gish Jen novel, on October 21, 2025. 

Gish Jen Bad Bad Girl review

  • “What an amazing f***ing novel, wild like love and twice as revealing. Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter epic of our new century. Bad Bad Girl spans decades, oceans, continents, generations, languages, showing us we can escape almost anything—except the voices of our parents. Intergenerational mother-daughter mayhem of the absolute best smartest vexing most moving kind.” (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
  • “Sharp and compassionate … Some relationships are so complex that truth can’t do them justice.” (Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times)

Gish Jen Bad Bad Girl

Bad Bad Girl

  • Author: Gish Jen (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 353 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Gish Jen

The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice. . .

Gish’s mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid—far more loving to than her real mother—is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: “Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!” Sent to a modern Catholic school by her progressive father, she receives not only an English name—Agnes—but a first-rate education. To his delight, she excels. But even then he can only sigh, “Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot.” Agnes finds solace in books and, in 1947, announces her intention to pursue a PhD in America. As the Communist revolution looms, she sets sail—never to return.

Lonely and adrift in New York, she begins dating Jen Chao-Pe, an engineering student. They do their best to block out the increasingly dire plight of their families back home and successfully establish a new American life: Marriage! A house in the suburbs! A number one son! By the time Gish is born, though, the news from China is proving inescapable; their marriage is foundering; and Agnes, confronted with a strong-willed, outspoken daughter distinctly reminiscent of herself, is repeating the refrain—“Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!”—as she recapitulates the harshness of her own childhood.

Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as immensely incisive as it is compassionate.

Gish Jen is born August 12, 1955 in Long Island, New York. She is a second-generation Chinese American. Her parents emigrated from China in the 1940s. Bad Bad Girl is het sixth novel. She als published non-fiction. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as of a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and of a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short work has appeared in the New Yorker and other magazines, and have been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She delivered the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University.

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Toni Morrison – Spelen in het duister

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie en informatie boek over witheid in de literaire verbeelding. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Letterwerk de Nederlandse vertaling van Playing in the Dark, het non-fictie boek uit 1993 van Toni Morrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie

  • “Door de Amerikaanse literaire slagader aan te vallen plaatst ze zich, met argumenten, in het centrum van het hedendaagse publieke debat over wat het betekent om authentiek en oorspronkelijk Amerikaans te zijn. Ze herinterpreteert op gedurfde wijze de mogelijkheden van Amerika.” (Chicago Tribune)
  • “Een diepgaande herdefiniëring van de Amerikaanse culturele identiteit.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister

Spelen in het duister

Witheid in de literaire verbeelding

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: literaire non-fictie
  • Origineel: Playing in the Dark (1993)
  • Uitgever: Letterwerk
  • Reeks: Filosofische Bibliotheek Diotima
  • Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
  • Omvang: 200 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Toni Morrison over racisme

Spelen in het duister is een van de weinige non-fictiewerken die Toni Morrison schreef. In dit boek maakt ze een messcherpe analyse van de verborgen, maar cruciale rol die Afro-Amerikanen spelen in de literaire verbeelding van wit Amerika. Ze spreekt over ‘Afrikanisme’: Afrikanen en Afro-Amerikanen vormden de vaak impliciete achtergrond van onvrijheid, waartegen de Amerikaanse idealen van autonomie en zelfredzaamheid konden worden afgezet (door witte schrijvers).

Morrison reflecteert op de impact van raciale aannames op het lezen en interpreteren van literaire werken. Door het ontrafelen van het ‘Afrikanisme’ ontstaat er een fascinerend nieuw perspectief op het werk van canonieke witte Amerikaanse schrijvers zoals E.A. Poe, Herman Melville, Will Cather en Ernest Hemingway.

In Spelen in het duister houdt Morrison ons een spiegel voor. Ze legt haarfijn de subtiele onderstromen van racisme en uitbuiting bloot die de basis vormen van veel Amerikaanse literatuur. Bovendien plaatst ze kritische vraagtekens bij het idee van ‘rasvrije’ literatuur en pleit ze voor de erkenning van de invloedrijke, maar vaak over het hoofd geziene, rol van Afro-Amerikanen hierin.

Geïllustreerd met een nawoord door de inspirerende Sibo Kanobana, levert Spelen in het duister een niet te onderschatten bijdrage aan het hedendaagse debat over racisme in Europa.

Toni Morrison is geboren op 18 februari1931 in Lorain, Ohiao, Verenigde Staten. Ze was een Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. In 1993 ontving ze de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur voor haar oeuvre. Een aantal van haar boeken wordt gezien als klassiekers van de Amerikaanse literatuur, waaronder The Bluest Eye, Beloved (dat bekroond werd met de Pulitzerprijs), en Song of Solomon. Door haar unieke stem en onwrikbare toewijding aan het vertellen van de complexe verhalen van Afro-Amerikanen heeft ze een onuitwisbare stempel gedrukt op de wereldliteratuur. Ze overleed op 5 augustus 2019 in The Bronx in New York City en werd 88 jaar oud.

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Shannon Bowring – In a Distant Valley

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley review, recensie en informatie roman over Maine in de winter van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de roman van Shannon Bowring, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley review en recensie

  • “Bowring brilliantly evokes people’s inner lives through small, illuminating moments.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Bowring concludes her heartwarming trilogy chronicling small-town life in northern Maine on a strong note…[her] compassionate, unflinchingly detailed portrayals of her characters’ inner lives provide depth and nuance. A vibrant, hope-filled story of the redemptive possibilities of second chances.” (Booklist)

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley

In a Distant Valley

  • Auteur: Shannon Bowring (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, Maine roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Europa Editions
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over Maine in de winter van Shannon Bowring

Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine.

For a while, Rose Douglas believed life had given her a break. She was enjoying a steady job at the local clinic in Dalton; her two young boys, Adam and Brandon, were doing well in school; and their little family had found an easy friendship with widower Nate Theroux and his daughter, Sophie. The possibility of something deeper even hung between her and Nate—until the day Tommy Merchant, her ex and the father of her sons, showed up without warning on her doorstep. While Rose knows all too well his erratic and abusive nature, he swears he’s clean, and ready to turn over a new leaf.

Tommy isn’t the only one who’s found his way back to the town that defined him. Lost after a disastrous stint living down south with her father, Angela Muse has returned home to Dalton. There she runs into Greg Fortin, the friend who once saved her life when they were children and finally starts to believe there may be someone who understands her in a world that offers more questions than answers.

But secrets are the lifeblood of a small town, and everyone in Dalton soon finds themselves part of a chain of events hurtling towards outcomes beyond their control, where more than one future will be decided. Brimming with compassion and heart.

Shannon Bowring has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Best of the Net, and was recently selected in Best Small Fictions. She holds an MFA from University of Southern Maine Stonecoast and currently resides in Maine. The Road to Dalton was her first novel, followed by When the Forest Meets the River. In a Distant Valley is her third novel.

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Portia Elan – Homebound

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

Portia Elan Homebound reviews

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

Portia Elan Homebound

Homebound

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

Blurb of the novel by Portia Elan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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