Jonathan Buckley One Boat review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman. Op 13 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Fitzcarraldo Editons de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Buckley. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Jonathan Buckley One Boat review en recensie
- “A strange, sly and self-assured novel, in which both nothing and everything happens…. There is a great deal of freight on board One Boat, but it packs so neatly into 168 pages that it never feels overburdened. This is a novel to be returned to as a place in which to think, just as Teresa returns to her Greek town.” (Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement)
- “Teresa’s story emerges in non-linear fragments of reminiscence and notebook scribbles…. An understated story about selfhood emerges from the flotsam of memories and jottings. When Buckley at last pulls back the metafictional curtain in the book’s final pages, he formalizes his narrator’s driftings and draftings. What seems at first a set of disparate, unpolished vignettes proves to be a masterfully unified conceit.” (Rachel Armitage, Literary Review)
- “Following the death of her father, Teresa returns to the small coastal town in Greece she first visited when her mother died nearly a decade before. From this scenario, tacking between the events of the second trip and memories of the first, Buckley creates a novel of quiet brilliance and sly humour, packed with mystery and indeterminacy. The way in which the book interleaves Teresa’s relationship to her mother, her involvement in an amateur murder investigation, and an account of a love affair, raises questions about grief, obsession, personhood and human connectivity we found to be as stimulating as they are complex.” (Booker Prize 2025 Jury)
One Boat
- Auteur: Jonathan Buckley (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Verschijnt: 13 maart 2025
- Omvang: 168 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 12,99 / £ 7,99
- Longlist Booker Prize 2025
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van Benjamin Wood
On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly – her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew.
Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John’s; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are.
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.
Jonathan Buckley is born in 1956 in Birmingham. He is a writer and editor now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel.
