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American Novel, Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Davey Davis – Casanova 20 or, Hot World

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Catapult will publish the new Davey Davis novel, on December 2, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World reviews

  • “A story that digs unflinchingly into the intimacy of both sex and illness … Davis’s characters are so haunted by the past that it often becomes syntactically interwoven with the present … Casanova 20 achieves this interjectory effect, punching through the well-charted terrains of sex, death, art, pleasure, and beauty with hedonistically lived-in details and incisive observations that rub the reader right up against the skin and the bedpan.” (Annie Lou Martin, The Whitney Review)
  • “The novel’s conceit is big, its prose attention-grabbing, its sexual joie de vivre propulsive, but, in the end, the most compelling part is the tender nuance of its central characters as they love both each other and the world. The result is a rare gem of a book—afraid of neither joy nor sorrow and patient enough to find the human heart inside all its gorgeous language. A show-stopping novel that carries within it a quiet, steadfast heart.” (Kirkus Review)

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hor World

Casanova 20

or, Hot World

  • Author: Davey Davis (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: December 2, 2025
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 17.95 / $ 12,99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Davey Davis novel

A novel about art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter.

Cursed by an extreme and unrelenting beauty, Adrian has drawn the frenzied attention of adoring strangers since childhood. As a twenty-nine-year-old in New York City, he spends his days drifting between affairs with women (and occasionally men) who provide him with everything he needs, from spending money to luxurious vacations to even, once, a mini yacht. With this generosity comes a dangerous possessiveness that often puts him at risk of much worse than heartbreak. But as people begin removing their masks in the spring of 2021, Adrian’s aimless sexual availability is interrupted by a shocking discovery: He is no longer beautiful.

Across the country, Adrian’s best friend and companion, Mark, a world-famous painter, has returned to the family home in rural Northern California. He’s faced with his own horrible revelation: He’s dying from the same mysterious disease that will soon take his mother and sister.

Despite the depth of their platonic romance, neither man reveals his fate to the other. Feeling as if he’s disappearing from sight, Adrian searches for answers among his thousands of lovers. In a race against his failing body, Mark becomes obsessed with watching fifty-two VHS tapes of unknown origin, left to him by his sister, before it’s too late.

Davey Davis is the author of X and the earthquake room. They write a weekly newsletter and mutual aid fundraiser about art, culture, sexuality, and people named David at itsdavid.substack.com. They live in Brooklyn.

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Horror, Tsjechië, Tsjechische roman, Tsjechische schrijfster

Zuzana Říhová – Playing Wolf

Zuzana Říhová Playing Wolf review, recensie en informatie over de roman van de uit Tsjechië afkomstige schrijfster. Op 1 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de Engelse vertaling van de horrorroman Cestou špendlíků nebo jehel van de Tsjechische schrijfster Zuzana Říhová. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Zuzana Říhová Playing Wolf review en recensie

  • “Playing Wolf is a fascinating combination of rural creepiness and gruesome fairy tale imagery. Zuzana Říhová’s prose, beautifully translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker, swirls with thoughts, paranoia, dread, and disappointment. You will cringe at the body horror, the wrong turns, the failure of the characters to see the danger before them, to escape the fairy tale they’ve inevitably fallen into. Gripping as it is harrowing!” (Richard Mirabella, author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest)
  • “What starts as an attempt at healing via nature and small-town values ends up closer to a Bohemian Chainsaw Massacre, albeit without the chainsaws … Zucker also deftly captures the playfulness of Říhová’s text . . . These types of subtle decisions derive from instinct and experience as much as fluency, and they are part of what makes Zucker such a premier translator … You’ll be both delighted and disturbed.”  (Cory Oldweiler, On the Seawall)

Zuzana Říhová Playing Wolf

Playing Wolf

  • Auteur: Zuzana Říhová (Tsjechië)
  • Soort boek: Tsjechische roman, horrorroman
  • Origineel: Cestou špendlíků nebo jehel (2021)
  • Engelse vertaling: Alex Zucker
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Tsjechische schrijfster Zuzana Říhová

A couple deep in the woods of a failing marriage find themselves the unwitting victims of a kidnapping plot after they move to a mysterious village in this distinctly poetic and disturbingly elegant horror novel.

Husband and wife Bohumil and Bohumila, together with their son, move from Prague to a remote village with the hopes of salvaging their marriage. In the searing summer heat, they try to fit in with the villagers, only to be met with hostile stares and evasive lies. Each night, the couple hears what they suspect to be a large animal wandering around their cottage—an impression that oddly corresponds to the mysterious flyers found at the local watering hole regarding a wolfen fairytale. As inexplicable coincidences begin piling up, it’s clear something sinister is afoot.

After a drunken night out, Bohumil and Bohumila come home to find the house empty: their son is gone. After three days of searching, they find the villagers in festive costumes gathered outside their cottage. Is it a bizarre game, or some perverse, folkloric ritual? Are Bohumil and Bohumila in danger? And what has happened to their son?

A dark social tale that slides inexorably towards psychological horror, Playing Wolf is a modern ballad of human destiny and discovering the animal in each of us.

Zuzana Říhová was born in 1981. She is a Czech writer and scholar. She studied Czech and comparative literature at Charles University in Prague and is the author of a poetry collection, Pustím si tě do domu (I’ll Let You in My House) (Dauphin, 2016), and a novella, Evička (Little Eve) (Dauphin, 2018), among other works.

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Mexicaanse auteur, Mexicaanse roman, Mexico

Daniel Saldaña París – The Dance and the Fire

Daniel Saldaña París The Dance and the Fire review, recensie en informatie over de roman van de Mexicaanse schrijver. Op 29 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de Engelse vertaling van de nieuwe roman van Daniel Saldaña París, de uit Mexico afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Daniel Saldaña París The Dance and the Fire review en recensie

  • “The Dance and the Fire is exuberantly strange, dark, and comic; an enthralling ode to Cuernavaca and the modern rebirth of medieval choreomania, as well as a prophecy about what happens when the built-up dread of our world on fire begins to seep into the soul. Daniel Saldaña Paris is an extraordinary talent, and his novel feels both urgent and true.” (Lauren Groff)
  • “A kaleidoscopic, erudite, and sweepingly tender novel reminiscent of Sebald, if Sebald was on acid. The Dance and the Fire’s power comes from the ambitious (yet brilliantly compacted) range of its themes—fatherhood, eros, art, judgment, personal and archival aporia—that culminate in a book as capacious, porous, and resonant as history itself.” (Ocean Vuong)

Daniel Saldaña París The Dance and the Fire

The Dance and the Fire

  • Auteur: Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico)
  • Soort boek: Mexicaanse roman
  • Origineel: El baile y el incendio (2021)
  • Engelse vertaling: Christina MacSweeney
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 29 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Mexicaanse schrijver Daniel Saldaña París

In a gripping, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed Mexican writer Daniel Saldaña París, three friends forever bound by erotic flames of the past reunite in a city engulfed by wildfires and an ecstatic dancing plague.

After years apart, three high school friends return to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where an intense love triangle once left an indelible mark on their adolescence. The city, surrounded by a ring of claustrophobic wildfires, brings out the past and confronts them with their present: they must once again face the entanglement of friendship and desire, the seemingly distant discovery of sexuality, complex parental relationships, and the daunting task of artistic fulfillment.

In the background, two forces of chaos and destruction are a constant presence. As fires ravage the physical landscape, one of the friends begins choreographing an ecstatic dance inspired by the German expressionist Mary Wigman and medieval Danse Macabre. What starts as a coping mechanism for the anxieties of youth and climate catastrophe becomes an overpowering, all-consuming hysteria. Mysterious powers are awakened, the boundary between reality and myth begins to blur, and the friends find themselves immersed in an increasingly turbulent and uncertain universe.

Daniel Saldaña París is born on 17 September 1984 in Mexico-City. He a Mexican writer based in New York and Mexico City. He is the author of the essay collection Planes Flying Over a Monster and the novels Among Strange Victims and Ramifications. In 2017 he was named on the Bogota39 list of best Latin American writers under 40.

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Australische roman, Australische schrijfster, coming-of-age roman

Michelle de Kretser – Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice recensie, review en informatie van de nieuwe roman van de op Sri Lanka geboren Australische schrijfster. Op 18 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van Michelle de Kretser. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice recensie, review en informatie

  • “This appears to be De Kretser’s impetus: to tread where Woolf refrained, to push the margins of what a novel can look and feel like. It also asks questions of the act of reading itself . . . This is a book of intrusions: of unacknowledged inequalities, of flawed maternal figures, of raw human emotions (our ‘morbid symptoms’) . . . So much is condensed into its brief length, not least of which is a probing interrogation of novels and why we write them . . . As De Kretser accomplishes in Theory & Practice, they allow witness of life’s ‘messy, human truth,’ told without shame.” (Jack Calil, The Guardian)
  • “Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection.” (Sigrid Nunez, schrijfster)

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice

Theory & Practice

  • Auteur: Michelle de Kretser (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische coming of age-roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 18 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 25,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Michelle de Kretser

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

It’s 1986, and “beautiful, radical ideas” are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a “deconstructed relationship.” They become lovers, and the narrator’s feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf’s diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser’s new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

Michelle de Kretser was born in 1957 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her family emigrated to Australia when she was a teenager, and she was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of five novels, including the Miles Franklin Award winners Questions of Travel and The Life to Come, the Man Booker Prize long–listed The Lost Dog, and a novella, Springtime. De Kretser now lives in Sydney with her partner, the poet and translator Chris Andrews. She is an honorary associate of the English department at the University of Sydney.

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Canadese schrijfster, Verhalen

Amanda Peters – Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Amanda Peters Waiting for the Long Night Moon review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het boek met verhalen van de Canadese schrijfster. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult het nieuwe boek van de uit Canada afkomstige schrijfster Amanda Peters. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Amanda Peters Waiting for the Long Night Moon review, recensie en informatie

  • “Readers who engage will be well rewarded with a meaningful collection centering Indigenous people. Written in a woven style, integrating past and present, the stories often end at deft, surprising, and important moments . . . Stunning . . . Peters’ award-winning debut created an audience ready for anything she writes, and they won’t be disappointed by her memorable stories.” (Booklist)
  • “Amanda Peters masterfully takes on complex and challenging subjects such as grief, loss, love, rage and resistance with a range of confident prose, from the subtle and understated to the poetic and resonant.” (Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians)

Amanda Peters Waiting for the Longg Night Moon

Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  • Auteur: Amanda Peters (Canada)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 27,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Amanda Peters Waiting for the Long Night Moon review, recensie en informatie

  • “Readers who engage will be well rewarded with a meaningful collection centering Indigenous people. Written in a woven style, integrating past and present, the stories often end at deft, surprising, and important moments . . . Stunning . . . Peters’ award-winning debut created an audience ready for anything she writes, and they won’t be disappointed by her memorable stories.” (Booklist)
  • “Amanda Peters masterfully takes on complex and challenging subjects such as grief, loss, love, rage and resistance with a range of confident prose, from the subtle and understated to the poetic and resonant.” (Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians)

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Amanda Peters

In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water.

In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. And a nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-winning and title story “Waiting for the Long Night Moon.”

At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power.

Amanda Peters is geboren in Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ze studeerde Fine Arts aan het Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. Ze stamt af van het inheemse volk de Mi’kmaq. Met De bessenplukkers, haar debuutroman, won ze de Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction en de 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Peters woont in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Haar tweede boek de verhalenbundel Waiting for the Long Moon verschijnt in februari 2025.

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Australië, Australische roman, Australische schrijfster

Ella Baxter – Woo Woo

Ella Baxter Woo Woo review, recensie en informatie van de roman van de Australische schrijfster. Op 3 december 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster die woont op land van het Wurundjeri Aboriginal volk. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ella Baxter Woo Woo review, recensie en informatie

  • “Ella Baxter has written a mesmerizing, strange, propulsive world of art and loneliness and sleep deprivation that swirls her readers around like wine in a glass, forcing us to reckon with who we are and what we believe. One of the few books about process and creation that doesn’t get lost in its own self-importance, Woo Woo is a novel people will want to talk about for years to come. Baxter is a master.” (Kelsey McKinney, author of God Spare the Girls)
  • “The whirligig pace of the novel relentlessly intensifies from chapter to chapter as Sabine navigates the boundary between real and manufactured, all in front of a live audience . . . The book is a pointedly absurdist send-up of the pretensions of the art world, which nevertheless carries at its core a real exploration of what is at stake when one lives for art. Baxter continues her triumphant exploration of real lives lived on the fringes of the surreal. Sassy, sharp, and very funny, but with a consequential heart.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Ella Baxter Woo Woo

Woo Woo

  • Auteur: Ella Baxter (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 3 december 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van de Aboriginal schrijfster Ella Baxter

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance.

Woo Woofollows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will be pivotal, as she plunges deeper into her neuroses and seeks validation in relationships—with her frustratingly rational chef husband, her horde of devoted Gen Z TikTok followers, and even a mysterious, potentially violent stalker.

Accompanying her throughout are Sabine’s strange alter egos, from hyperrealistic puppets of her as a baby to the ghost of conceptual artist Carolee Schneemann, who shows up with inscrutable yet sage life advice.

Ella Baxter approaches the desire to see and be seen that defines both the creative and romantic act with humor, empathy, and a good dose of wildness, driving Sabine to an surreal and compelling climax that forces her—and us—to reconsider what it means to be an artist and a partner.

Ella Baxter is a writer and artist living on unceded land of the Wurundjeri people in Australia. She is the author of New Animal, which was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Matt Richell Award for New Writers.

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Arabische roman, Arabische schrijfster, Oman

Jokha Alharthi – Silken Gazelles

Jokha Alharthi Silken Gazelles recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de roman van de uit Oman afkomstige Arabische schrijfster. Op 13 augustus verschijnt bij uitveverij Catapult de Engelse vertaling van de Arabische roman Harir al-Ghazala van de Omaanse schrijfster Jokha Alharthi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de Omaanse roman verkrijgbaar.

Jokha Alharthi Silken Gazelles recensie en review

  • “In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Jokha Alharthi Silken Gazelles

Silken Gazelles

  • Auteur: Jokha Alharthi (Oman)
  • Soort boek: Omaanse roman, Arabische roman
  • Origineel: Harir al-Ghazala (2021)
  • Engelse vertaling: Marilyn Booth
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 13 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00
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Flaptekst van de roman van de Omaanse schrijfster Jokha Alharthi

From Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Celestial Bodies and Bitter Orange Tree, a new novel about two Omani women whose unbreakable connection is forged as nursing sisters—a bond considered akin to that of a birth sibling.

Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mountainside village following a tragic circumstance. It’s a separation that haunts her into adulthood, and she never gives up on finding a love that might replace the bond they shared.

Years later, Ghazaala’s family moves to Muscat, where she falls in love with a professional violinist who lives in their building. She completely surrenders herself to his charm and, despite her parents’ opposition, runs away from home to marry him. While balancing the duties of a new wife—caring for her husband, their home, and, before long, their twin boys—Ghazaala resumes her education and enrolls in university.

Ghazaala’s sharp wit catches the attention of another student, Harir, during their freshman year. In the pages of her diary, Harir recounts the story of her deepening, transformative friendship with Ghazaala over the course of ten years. The elusive, ghostly existence of Asiya exerts a force over both their lives, yet neither Ghazaala nor Harir is aware of the connection. From the brilliant mind of Jokha Alharthi comes a tale of childhood friendship, and how its significance—and loss—can be recalibrated at different stages of life.

Jokha Alharthi (1978, Oman) is the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English, and Celestial Bodies is the first book translated from Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize. She is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children’s book, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean, and Serbian.

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Amerikaanse thrillers

Jamie Harrison – The River View

Jamie Harrison The River View recensie, review en informatie nieuwe Jules Clement thriller die zich afspeelt in de staat Montana in de Verenigde Staten. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Catapult de nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijfster Jamie Harrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de spannende roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jamie Harrison The River View recensie, review en informatie

  • “Published alongside newly reissued editions of the entire series, The River View is further proof that “you haven’t been west in any meaningful sense until you’ve been to Blue Deer.” (The New York Times)

Jamie Harrison The River View

The River View

Jules Clement thriller

  • Auteur: Jamie Harrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe Jules Clement thriller van Jamie Harrison

Former sheriff Jules Clement returns in this new installment of the celebrated mystery series, set once again in the wild, strange, windy town of Blue Deer, Montana, where your neighbors or the tourists can be just as deadly as the weather.

Jules Clement is back in Blue Deer, working as an archaeologist and private investigator. He’s a mostly happy man: he’s a new father, and he and his wife Caroline are building their dream house on an idyllic patch of river bottomland. But everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder. The horrible neighbors enlist Jules to spy on each other. The county hires him to find out if a road runs over some misplaced bodies in a long-abandoned potter’s field. A former priest with a side hustle in extortion ends up very dead. A crew of Russians in fast cars is running amok through the Montana landscape. All this as an old nemesis returns, pulling Jules back to confront what he’s been avoiding his entire life: the death of his father.

Jamie Harrison (21 mei 1960, East Lansing, Michigan) has lived in Montana for more than thirty years. She is the author of the Jules Clement novels, as well as the novels The Center of Everything and The Widow Nash, the winner of a Reading the West Book Award and a finalist for the High Plains Book Award.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Argentinië, Familiegeschiedenis

Jordan Salama – Stranger in the Desert

Jordan Salama Stranger in the Desert. Op 20 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Catapult het nieuwe boek met de familiegeschiedenis van de Joods-Amerikaanse schrijver Jordan Salama. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jordan Salama Stranger in the Desert

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van Stranger in the Desert, geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijver Jordan Salama, kun je er hier over lezen.

  • “Salama’s rapport with readers remains unquestioned. An accomplished sophomore effort from an unusually gifted young writer.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “A nonchronological personal narrative rather than a standard travel memoir, Stranger in the Desert is a reflection on family history, identity, and storytelling.” (Laura Chanoux, Booklist)

Jordan Salama boeken en informatie

Jordan Salama is een Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver. Hij woont en werkt in New York. Artikelen van zijn hand zijn verschenen in National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian en Scientific American.

Het eerste reisboek van Jordan Salama, Every Day the River Changes is het verhaal van de Magdalena rivier in Colombia. In zijn tweede boek, waarover je hier alles leest. vertelt hij zijn eigen familiegeschiedenis aan de hand van een reis door Argentinië. Tot nu toe zijn geen van de boeken van Jordan Salama in Nederlandse vertaling uitgegeven.

Jordan Salama Stranger in the Desert

Stranger in the Desert

A Family Story

  • Auteur: Jordan Salama (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: reisverhaal, familiegeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 20 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $27.00 / $14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de familiegeschiedenis van Jordan Salama

Inspired by family lore, a young writer embarks on an epic quest through the Argentine Andes in search of a heritage spanning hemispheres and centuries, from the Jewish Levant to turn-of-the-century trade routes in South America.

One Thanksgiving afternoon at his grandparents’ house, Jordan Salama discovers a large binder stuffed with yellowing papers and old photographs—a five-hundred-year wandering history of his Arab-Jewish family, from Moorish Spain to Ottoman Syria to Argentina and beyond.

One story in particular captures his attention: that of his great-grandfather, a Syrian-born, Arabic-speaking Jewish immigrant to Argentina who in the 1920s worked as a traveling salesman in the Andes—and may have left behind forgotten descendants along the way. Encouraged by his grandfather, Jordan goes in search of these “Lost Salamas,” traveling more than a thousand miles up the spine of South America’s greatest mountain range.

Combining travelog, history, memoir, and reportage, Stranger in the Desert transports readers from the lonely plains of Patagonia to the breathtaking altiplano of the high Andes; from the old Jewish quarter of Damascus to today’s vibrant neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. It is also a fervent journey of self-discovery as Salama grapples with his own Jewish, Arab, and Latin American identities, interrogating the stories families tell themselves, and to what end.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Dieren, Dierenboeken, Natuur, Natuurboeken, Non-Fictie

Erika Howsare – The Age of Deer

Erika Howsare The Age of Deer. Op 2 januari 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult Books het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse dichteres en non-fictieschrijfster Erika Howsare. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor de boekbespreking en recensie van The Age of Deer, het nieuwe boek van Erika Howsare. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Erika Howsare The Age of Deer recensie

  • “A poignant meditation on humanity’s relationship with deer… [Howsare’s] lyrical musings cast her subject in a new light… Readers will be enthralled.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “A fascinating exploration of deer . . . Outstanding natural history writing.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Informatie over Erika Howsare

Erika Howsare is geboren en getogen in de Amerikaanse staat Pennsylvania. Ze is dichteres en non-fictieschrijfster. Voor  haar boek uit 2018 How Is Travel a Folded Form? kreeg ze behoorlijk wat aandacht en lof. Haar nieuwe boek over herten in relatie tot de natuur en de mens dat begin januari 2024 verschijnt kun je hier veel informatie lezen. Er is nog geen werk van Erika Howsare in het Nederlands vertaald.

Erika Howsare The Age of Deer

The Age of Deer

Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbours

  • Auteur: Erika Howsare (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: natuurboek, non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult Books
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het natuurboek van Erika Howsare