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Uitgeverij, Nieuwe Boeken, Nieuwe romans

And Other Stories new books

And Other Stories new books, novels, stories, poetry and non fiction. Welke nieuwe romans en andere boeken verschijnen er bij de Engelse onafhankelijke uitgeverij & Other Stories? Boeken van welke schrijvers, schrijfsters en auteurs verschijnen er bij And Other Stories?

And Other Stories informatie

And Other Stories publiceert voornamelijk hedendaagse literatuur, waaronder veel vertalingen. We selecteren zorgvuldig en hopen dat u het met ons eens bent dat de boeken goed zijn, aan het denken zetten en de tand des tijds kunnen doorstaan. We streven ernaar de leesgrenzen van mensen te verleggen en hen te helpen auteurs met avontuurlijke en inspirerende teksten te ontdekken. En we willen de uitgeverij openstellen, zodat het van buitenaf niet op een chique vrijmetselarij lijkt.

& Other Stories new books, novels, stories, poetry and non fiction

Wat zijn de nieuwe romans, poezie, non-fictie en andere boeken die bij de Engelse uitgeverij And Other Stories verschijnen? De indeling van de boeken is op datum van verschijnen. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie, reviews, recensies en bestelmogelijkheden van de boeken.

Juan Pablo Villalobos The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves reviewJuan Pablo Villalobos (Mexico) –  The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves 
Mexican novel
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: July 21, 2026
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After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit family and help care for his elderly mother. Instead, however, he finds himself at a bar, his fist inches from the face of Everardo, his sort-of childhood friend. He lands the blow and runs home. But when Everardo turns up dead the next morning, JP soon finds himself blamed for a murder that he (probably) didn’t commit. What’s going on? Can Lagos really be more full of drugs, extortion, and fraud than when he left? Why is everyone offering him pills? How’s he ever going to pay for his mother’s medical treatment? It wasn’t even that good a punch!…read on >

Rosalind Belben Is Beauty Good reviewRosalind Belben (England) – Is Beauty Good
Berlin novel from 1989
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: July 14, 2026
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It begins in Berlin by the Wall. It ends in Berlin – still before 1989 – in the Tiergarten Zoo, to the boom and roar and moan of animals. More often we find ourselves in mountains or an English garden, in the natural world, the loss of which Is Beauty Good so memorably laments…read on >

Yang Shuang-zi Taiwan Tavelogue reviewYang Shuang-zi (Taiwan) – Taiwan Tavelogue
Taiwanese novel
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: March 5, 2026
Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power. Set in May 1938, the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter helps her experience real island life and taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear…read on >

Cody Caetano Half-Bads in White RegaliaCody Caetano (Canada) – Half-Bads in White Regalia
Canadian first nation memoir
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: March 3, 2026
Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity…read on >

Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape reviewGerald Murnane (Australië) – Landscape with Landscape
Australian stories from1985
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: January 13, 2026
Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s first collection of short fiction. These loosely connected stories trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature…lees verder >

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming reviewLeanne Betasamosake Simpson (Canada) – Noopiming
The Cure for White Ladies
Canadian First Nation novel
Publisher: And Other Stories
Released: November 4, 2025
Akiwenzii is the old man and their will. Ninaatig is the maple tree; they are their lungs. Mindimooyenh is the old woman who holds it all together; she is their conscience. Sabe, the honest sasquatch, is the marrow in their bones. Adik is the caribou and their nervous system. Asin, human, is their eyes and ears; Lucy, human, their mind. Together they are Mashkawaji, our narrator, who may be frozen stiff but still remembers a time of connection everywhere…read on>

Shrikant Verma Magadh reviewShrikant Verma (India) – Magadh
Hindi gedichten en poëzie uit 1984
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
Magadh, Shrikant Verma’s masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators – commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers – pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and richly allusive, Verma lays bare their tales of corruption, guilt, ignorance and arrogance…lees verder >

Rosalind Belben Dreaming of Dead People recensie en reviewRosalind Belben (Engeland) – Dreaming of Dead People
Engelse roman uit 1979
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
In the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last…lees verder >

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez reviewMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Night of the Living Rez
Native American stories
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction…lees verder >

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review en recensieBanu Mushtaq (India) – Heart Lamp
Selected Kannada Stories
Uitgever: And Other Stories
Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
Winnaar International Booker Prize 2025
Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style…lees verder >

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Email: info@andotherstories.org

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India, Indiase schrijfster

Banu Mushtaq – Heart Lamp

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review, recensie en informatie boek met selected stories van de Indiase schrijfster die in de Kannada taal schrijft. Op 8 april 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories het boek met de Engelse vertaling van een aantal verhalen van de uit India afkomstige schrijfster Banu Mushtaq. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de vertaler. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp review, recensie en informatie

  • “A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women with rare talent and art. Deepa Bhasthi’s rich translation captures the original’s nuances of voice, context and experience, bringing this important work into English for new readers in India and internationally.” (PEN Presents Selection Panel)
  • “These beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories rise from Kannada, interspersed with the extraordinary socio-political richness of other languages and dialects. It speaks of women’s lives, reproductive rights, faith, caste, power and oppression.” (Jury International Booker Prize 2025)

Banu Mushtaq Heart Lamp

Heart Lamp

Selected Stories

  • Auteur: Banu Mushtaq (India)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Deepa Bhasthi
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 8 april 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Winnaar International Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van de Indiase Kannada schrijfster Banu Mushtaq

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 1980s: critical of the caste and class system, the Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women.  She is the author of six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won major awards for her literary works, including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and the Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards. Previously translated into Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam, the first book-length translation of her work into English will be Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, to be published in 2025, while one of the stories from Heart Lamp has been published in the Paris Review.

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Australische roman, Australië, Australische schrijver

Gerald Murnane – Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch review, recensie en informatie van de Australische roman uit 2009. Op 4 februari 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van de roman van de uit Australie afkomstige schrijver Gerald Murnane. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch review, recensie en informatie

  • “He is without question both the most original and most significant Australian author of the last 50 years, and one of the best writers Australia has produced.” (Emmett Stinson, The Guardian)
  • “Murnane is unlike anyone else, the sort of writer who demands to be read in a new way but, above all, demands to be read.” (Brian Evenson, Chicago Review of Books)

Gerald Murnane Barley Patch

Barley Patch

  • Auteur: Gerald Murnane (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman uit 2009
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 2009 van Gerald Murnane

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane’s first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, ‘Must I write?’ What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author’s mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the ‘stones’ as a child, from a cousin’s doll’s house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author’s mind.

The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane’s unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate.

Gerald Murnane is geboren op 25 februari 1939 in Coburg, Victoria in Australië. Na een korte tijd gestudeerd te hebben voor het priesterschap werd hij leraar op een lagere school. In 1969 behaald hij een bachelor in de kunsten aan de University of Melbourne. gedurende deze periode begon hij ook met schrijver wat in 1974 resulteerde in zijn debuutroman Tamarisk Row. Hij wordt tegenwoordig gezien als één van de meest vooraanstaande literaire auteurs uit Australië en er is meer en meer aandacht gekomen voor zijn werk. Inmiddels zijn twee van zijn boeken in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen.

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Mexicaanse roman, Mexicaanse auteur

Yuri Herrera – Season of the Swamp

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over New Orleans. Op 5 november 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van de roman La estación del pantano van de uit Mexicaanse schrijver Yuri Herrera. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp recensie en review

  • “As glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo, the novel comes together as Herrera vividly depicts the chaos of Mardi Gras. It’s a triumph.” (Publishers Weekly)

Yuri Herrera Season of the Swamp

Season of the Swamp

  • Auteur: Yuri Herrera (Mexico)
  • Soort boek: Mexicaanse historische roman
  • Origineel: La estación del pantano (2022)
  • Engelse vertaling: Lisa Dillman
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 5 november 2024
  • Omvang:
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de historische roman over New Orleans van Yuri Herrera

New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec exile from Mexico named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city.

Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the stark trade in human beings.

With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera’s fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at the Tulane University, in New Orleans.

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Uruguay, Uruguayaans schrijver, Verhalen

Mario Levrero – The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine

Mario Levrero The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine recensie, review en informatie debuut uit 1970 van de Uruguayaanse schrijver. Op 15 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van de verhalenbundel La máquina de pensar en Gladys van de uit Uruguay afkomstige schrijver Mario Levrero. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Mario Levrero The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine recensie en review

  • “These stories contain Levrero’s most secret side and, in a way, 80% of the DNA that made him an extraordinary writer.” (Fabián Casas, Argentijnse schrijver)
  • “One of Latin American literature’s most balanced and well-constructed books.” (Elvio Gandolfo, Argentijnse schrijver)

Mario Levrero The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine

The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine

  • Auteur: Mario Levrero (Uruguay)
  • Soort boek: verhalen, debuut
  • Origineel: La máquina de pensar en Gladys (1970)
  • Engelse vertaling: Annie McDermott, Kit Schluter
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 16,99
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Flaptekst van het debuut van de Uruguayaanse schrijver Mario Levrero

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as in The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, his 1970 debut collection of stories. It gathers a variety of Levrero’s earliest and most formally inventive publications, ranging from dazzling single paragraph micro-fictions à la Donald Barthelme to adventurous Lewis Carroll-esque tales of forty pages’ length.

From the shocking surreal twists of ‘Beggar Street’ to the Escher-like grammatical maze of ‘The Boarding House’, via the pseudo-fairy tale classic ‘The Basement’, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.

Mario Levrero was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 23 january 1940 and died there on 30 august 2004. Levrero was a photographer, bookseller, comics scriptwriter, humorist, crossword author, and creator of brain games. He wrote twelve novels and several short story collections and it was not long before he gained cult status amongst readers in Uruguay and Argentina, despite keeping a low profile. He has inspired Latin American writers such as Rodolfo Fogwill, César Aira and Alejandro Zambra. In 2000 he was awarded the Guggenheim grant that allowed him to complete work on The Luminous Novel, which was published posthumously.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Indianen

Morgan Talty – Fire Exit

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensie, review en informatie nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en native American van de Penobscot Indian Nation. Op 1 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de nieuwe roman van de Indiaans-Amerikaanse schrijver Morgan Talty. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensie en review

  • “In propulsive, spell-binding prose, Fire Exit delves into the far-reaching consequences of blood quantum and examines the intersections of familial care and sacrifice. Once again, Talty proves himself witty, wise, and a voice of our age.” (Jonathan Escoffery, Amerikaanse schrijver)
  • “Exquisite. An achingly beautiful, profound exploration of familial ties and their wreckages. Fire Exit cements the arrival of a very exciting new voice. I can’t wait to see what Morgan Talty does next.” (Irenosen Okojie, Nigeriaanse schrijfster)

Morgan Talty Fire Exit

Fire Exit

  • Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, native American novel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024
  • Omvang:
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen >

Flaptekst van de roman van Morgan Talty

A lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking after his mother as her lifelong depression intensifies, and staring across the water to the reservation, at the house in which his daughter has grown up. Elizabeth, his daughter, doesn’t know he exists.

Charles spent his own childhood on the same reservation, with a Native stepfather who treated him as his son – until tragedy struck, leaving a burning hole at the centre of their lives. As an adult Charles was forced to leave the reservation. When his first love Mary found out she was pregnant, she decided to conceal their daughter’s true heritage, in order to ensure Elizabeth’s tribal enrollment.

In her twenties now, Elizabeth is struggling. Observed from afar by her real father, who can see the connection between his daughter and his mother, the cracks in the foundations of Elizabeth’s life are beginning to show. As firmly as Charles believes the truth will set them all free, the price of it may be the destruction of them all.

Fire Exit is a novel of exceptional heart. It’s a deeply layered story of family and blood ties; full of quiet, beautiful, and dignified sentences, it shows us intergenerational connections from all angles, and their capacity to break, reform, fade, or strengthen, while always remaining a part of us.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

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Noorse roman, Noorse schrijfster

Hanne Ørstavik – Stay with Me

Hanne Ørstavik Stay with Me recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Noorse roman. Op 5 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van de roman Bli hos meg van de Noorse schrijfster Hanne Ørstavik. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Hanne Ørstavik Stay with Me recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnen van Stay with Me de nieuwe roman van de Noorse schrijfster Hanne Ørstavik, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Hanne Ørstavik Stay with Me

Stay with Me

  • Auteur: Hanne Ørstavik (Noorwegen)
  • Soort boek: Noorse roman
  • Origineel: Bli hos meg (2023)
  • Engelse vertaling: Martin Aitken
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 5 september 2024
  • Omvang:
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Hanne Ørstavik

The narrator of this novel is a Norwegian writer living in Milan. A year has passed since the premature death of her Italian husband. She falls in love. M is seventeen years younger than her, but the connection between them is intense and of a kind she has never felt before. Then, as his vulnerability starts showing, so does his troubling rage. She knows this rage. It was always present in her childhood, and it created an all-encompassing fear in her.

In Stay with Me, Hanne Ørstavik returns to her theme of love, this time exploring how it can be intertwined with insecurity, fear and violence. How do you recognise love, if fear is the feeling you know?

Hanne Ørstavik is op 28 november 1969 geboren in Tana, Noorwegen. Ze heeft inmiddels ruim vijftien romans gepubliceerd waarvan er een aantal vertaald zijn in het Engels, Duits en andere talen. Ondanks het feit dat ze een aantal van de belangrijkste literaire prijzen van Noorwegen en Scandinavie heeft gewonnen is haar werk op dit moment niet in Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

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Palestijnse roman, Palestijnse schrijfster, Palestina

Ibtisam Azem – The Book of Disappearance

Ibtisam Azem The Book of Disappearance recensie, review en informatie over de Palestijnse roman. Op 1 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van Sifr al-Ikhtifaa de roman uit 2014 van de In New York wonende maar uit Palestina afkomstige schrijfster Ibtisam Azem. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Ibtisam Azem The Book of Disappearance recensie en review

  • “In this immensely readable novel, Ms. Azem does not resolve for us the calamity of Palestine’s occupation by Israel. But stylishly and with jeweled virtuosity she makes us understand that acts of great and humane imagination will be required, and with this potent book points where and how we must all go.” (Richard Ford)

Ibtisam Azem The Book of Disappearance

The Book of Disappearance

  • Auteur: Ibtisam Azem (Palestina)
  • Soort boek: Palestijnse roman
  • Origineel: Sifr al-Ikhtifaa (2014)
  • Engelse vertaling: Sinan Antoon
  • Uitgever: And Other Sories
  • Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2024
  • Omvang:
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 16,99 / € 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Palestijnse schrijfster Ibtisam Azem

Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.

That search, and Ariel’s reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.

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India, Indiase roman, Indiase schrijver

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih – Funeral Nights

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Funeral Nights recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Indiase roman. In juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de omvangrijke verhalenroman van de uit India afkomstige schrijver Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Funeral Nights recensie en review

  • “The stories…in this 1,000-page book are riveting, but what makes it truly unputdownable are the vital connections it draws to daily life.” (India Today)
  • “A pathbreaking novel in both its writing and subject, and peppered with unexpected moments of humor, there is much wisdom to be gained from Funeral Nights.” (The Telegraph)
  • “It was more like sitting down with old friends and listening to conversations. Amusing, enlightening, witty conversations that opened my eyes, made me think…Funeral Nights is the sort of book that should be made required reading. We need many more books like this, insightful and well-written, opening a window on the often-ignored corners of India.” (The Indian Express)

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Funeral Nights

Funeral Nights

  • Auteur: Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (India)
  • Soort boek: Indiase verhalenroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Ohter Stories
  • Verschijnt: 2 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 1023 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £18.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

A group of friends journey to the North of India, in a remote part of West Khasi Hills, to witness an ancient Lyngngam funeral ceremony that lasts six days. Concluding with the cremation of a beloved elder, a woman whose body has been preserved in a tree house for nine whole months, this may well be the last time Ka PhorSorat is performed. By mistake, however, the group arrives early. So they wait, stuck in the jungle, spending their nights around a fire in the middle of a spacious hut built for them especially, sharing stories in what proves an unexpected journey of discovery.

Funeral Nights is a vast collection of tales both big and small, less about death than it is about life in all forms. It teems with admirable men and women, raconteurs and pranksters, lovers and fools, politicians and conmen, drunks and taxi drivers; it abounds with culture, history, gods, religions, myths and legends. Inspired by Boccaccio’s  Decameron and The Arabian Nights, this is intimate access to a whole world, spectacular in its documentation of a tribe’s life and culture, and lush, warm, and entirely delightful in its telling.

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, born in Sohra, Meghalaya, writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest works include the epic-length novel Funeral Nights, The Yearning of Seeds: Poems, Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu and Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends. He has published poems and stories.

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Gerald Murnane – Inland

Gerald Murnane Inland Australische verhalen uit 1988. Op 6 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Inland, het boek van de Australische schrijver Gerald Murnane. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek aangekondigd of verkrijgbaar. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Gerald Murnane Inland recensie

  • “The sort of writing Murnane gives us – focused, precise – probably depends upon a life free from disruption: free to think and take time and put one word after another with as much care as possible … It doesn’t have what most novels do – plot, characters in the traditional sense, even a clear setting at times – and yet to read it with an eye on what’s not there is to overlook what is. It plunges deep into the way our minds work, the connections between memories and images that make up what we call our selves. Indeed, reading Murnane’s fiction, stripped of the usual elements, actually makes other novels seem thin by comparison.” (John Self, Irish Times)
  • “For Murnane, access to the other world–a world distinct from and in many ways better than our own–is gained neither by good works nor by grace but by giving the self up to fiction.” (J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books)
  • “An image in Murnane’s prose has the quality of an image in colored glass: One both sees the image and sees through the image simultaneously.” (Benjamin H. Ogden, New York Times)

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Gerald Murnane is geboren op 25 februari 1939 in Coburg, Victoria in Australië. Na een korte tijd gestudeerd te hebben voor het priesterschap werd hij leraar op een lagere school. In 1969 behaald hij een bachelor in de kunsten aan de University of Melbourne. gedurende deze periode begon hij ook met schrijver wat in 1974 resulteerde in zijn debuutroman Tamarisk Row…lees verder >

Gerald Murnane Inland

Inland

  • Auteur: Gerald Murnane (Australië)
  • Soort boek: verhalen uit 1988
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek uit 1988 van de Australische schrijver Gerald Murnane

Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator’s imagination – from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing, to the narrator’s own native district in Melbourne County, between Moonee Ponds and the Merri, where he recalls the constant displacements of his childhood. ‘No thing in the world is one thing,’ he declares; ‘some places are many more than one place.’

These overlapping worlds are bound by recurring motifs – fish pond, fig-tree, child-woman, the colours white, red and green – and by deep feelings of intimacy and betrayal, which are brought to full expression as the book moves to its close.

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