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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

Kasim Ali – Who Will Remain

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijver uit Birmingham. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij 4th Estate de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijver Kasim Ali. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain review en recensie

  • “One of the most gripping novels I’ve read in a long time.” (Samira Ahmed, BBC Radio 4)
  • “An unflinching meditation on fractured loyalties … Reminiscent of the great modernists, Ali has written a quietly seething novel.”  (Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive)

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain

Who Will Remain

  • Auteur: Kasim Ali (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman over Birmingham
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: 4th Estate
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Birmingham van Kasim Ali

A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door.

Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed to keep his head down, worked hard and stayed out of trouble … until now.

When Saqib is killed in a gang fight and Bilal announces his engagement, Amir suddenly loses the two men who keep him grounded. Amir’s university grades are collapsing, he’s running out of money, and pressure mounts from every direction. As tensions flare, the friends left around him start to draw Amir into their more dangerous pursuits, and the family ties that have bound him so completely begin to unravel. Amir decides he only has himself to rely on and must take his future into his own hands.

This is a blistering story of social expectations and social condemnation, of dead ends and divided loyalties, and of what’s left behind when you have nothing left to lose.

Kasim Ali was born and raised in Alum Rock, Birmingham. He is the author of the debut novel Good Intentions, has written fiction for BBC Radio 4 and has a column at The Bookseller. His short fiction has been longlisted for the 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Short Story Prize, and Good Intentions was shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize. He works as an editor in publishing and now lives in London.

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India, Indiase roman, Indiase schrijver

Ruchir Joshi – Great Eastern Hotel

Ruchir Joshi Great Eastern Hotel recensie, review en informatie roman van de Indiase schrijver en filmmaker. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Fourth Estate de nieuwe roman van de uit India afkomstige schrijver Ruchir Joshi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ruchir Joshi Great Eastern Hotel recensie en review

  • “Great Eastern Hotel isn’t just a love letter to a lost city – it’s a lusty, brawling, cigarette-stained, gin-soaked declaration that history belongs as much to the pickpocket in the shadows as to the statesman in the ballroom.” (The Statesman)
  • “Has there been a novel of such scale since A Suitable Boy? … this novel serves as a meditation on what was, what is and perhaps what will be.” (Outlook India)
  • “Joshi scales down the event calendar and blows up the human drama so skillfully that his ordinary characters become magnificent creatures, anything but hapless victims of history … The novel thrums with a visceral passion for its subject.” (Frontline)

Ruchir Joshi Great Eastern Hotel

Great Eastern Hotel

  • Auteur: Ruchir Joshi (India)
  • Soort boek: Indiase roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 920 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 18,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Indiase schrijver en filmmaker Ruchir Joshi

August 1941. The world is at war. At the Great Eastern, Calcutta’s most luxurious hotel, amidst the feasting, dancing and laughter, we witness the metropolis in the last moments before disaster strikes.

On the day the revered poet Rabindranath Tagore dies, the city comes to a standstill. Thousands of people line the streets to pay their respects. Amongst them are: Nirupama, a history student and Communist Party volunteer; Imogen, the English daughter of a Raj official; Kedar, an aspiring painter; and Gopal, a young pickpocket who finds himself promoted into a dark, dangerous world.

The lives of these four people intertwine with those at the hotel: an American soldier who plays jazz at the nightclub; a genius French chef; an heiress fleeing from the nightmare in Europe; and a group of military officers running a secret intelligence operation.

Magisterial in scope, rich in detail and gloriously entertaining, Great Eastern Hotel brings to life India on the brink of independence. An epic tale of belonging, love, art and how individual lives can become swept up in the tides of history.

Ruchir Joshi is born in 1960 in Kolkata, India. He is a trained and practising filmmaker in India. Born and raised in Calcutta, he now lives in Delhi.

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Nigeria, Nigeriaanse auteur, Nigeriaanse roman

Eloghosa Osunde – Necessary Fiction

Eloghosa Osunde Necessary Fiction review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de auteur uit Nigeria. Op 31 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Fourth Estate de nieuwe roman van de Nigeriaanse auteur Eloghosa Osunde. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Eloghosa Osunde Necessary Fiction review en recensie

  • “Necessary Fiction’s Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive. They love hard, fight fierce, and love fiercer. And yet they are forced to the margins of their own society, having to navigate love and happiness under a blanket of fear, danger, and uncertainty. This is where the title becomes gospel, for they need those stories in order to live. When life has risk at every turn, family is chosen, and love is on the edge of the knife, fiction indeed becomes necessary.” (Marlon Jones, Booker Prize winning author)

Eloghosa Osunde Necessary Fiction

Necessary Fiction

  • Auteur: Eloghosa Osunde (Nigeria)
  • Soort boek: Nigeriaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 31 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99 / £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Nigeriaanse schrijfster Eloghosa Osunde

What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone?

Across Lagos, Osunde’s characters seek out love for self and their chosen partners, even as they risk ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family and friends. A rolling cast emerges: vibrantly active, stubbornly alive, brazenly flawed. These characters grapple with desire, fear, time, death, and God, forming and breaking unexpected connections; in the process unveiling how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit.

As they work to establish themselves in the city’s worlds of art, music, entertainment and creative commerce, we meet their collective and individual attempts to reckon with the necessary fiction they carry for survival.

Eloghosa Osunde is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria. Their critically acclaimed debut novel Vagabonds! was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. They are the recipient of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction 2021, the MoAD’s African Literary Award 2023 and an ASME Award for Fiction. Their writing has been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica and elsewhere. They move between Nigeria, Nairobi, New York City and wherever else their work calls.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman

Brittany Newell – Soft Core

Brittany Newell Soft Core recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 13 maart 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Fourth Estate de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Brittany Newell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de inhoud.

Brittany Newell Soft Core recensie, review en informatie

  • “A beautiful fever dream, a slippery, captivating pleasure.” (Kristen Arnett)
  • “For the generation whose life is an endless stream of dead-end Hinge dates.” (Sunday Times Style)
  • “A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived.” (Dazed)

Brittany Newell Soft Core

Soft Core

  • Auteur: Brittany Newell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 13 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van Brittany Newell

A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Francisco’s seedy underground.

Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she’s feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco’s shady erotic underground to find him.

Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre ‘favours’ and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named ‘Nobody’, as well as co-workers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby’s whole identity, starting with her underwear.

It’s not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention. With her grip on reality loosening and the clock ticking, will Baby manage to put together the pieces and find the only man she’s ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first?

Manically smart, brutally funny and deeply sexy, Soft Core is a book about desire, fantasy and true love – like no other.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, Iran

Sanam Mahloudji – The Persians

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Iraans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 30 januari 2025 verschijnt bij 4th Estate de debuutroman van Sanam Mahloudji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling De Perzen verschijnt op 29 september 2025 bij uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos.

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians review, recensie en informatie

  • “Funny and profound … A gloriously engrossing debut.” (Tash Aw)
  • “Glorious … Darkly funny, richly satisfying.” (Sarah Winman)
  • “Filled with heartbreak, humour, and so much love.” (Vanessa Chan)

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians

The Persians

  • Auteur: Sanam Mahloudji (Iran, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: 4th Estate
  • Verschijnt: 30 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van Sanam Mahloudji

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.

First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in a shabby apartment except when she is visited by Niaz, her young, Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose, and somehow manages to survive. Across the ocean in America, Elizabeth’s daughters have built new lives for themselves. There’s Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future; and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned bored housewife languishing in the privileged hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student spending her days in New York trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings.

When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle upper class veneer is cracked wide open. Soon, Shirin must embark upon a grand quest to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never even mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow together?

Spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s, these five women are pulled apart and brought together by revolutions personal and political. The Persians is a darkly funny, deeply moving and profoundly searching portrait of a unique family in crisis. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all.

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensieSanam Mahloudji (Verenigde Staten) – De Perzen
familieroman
Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
Verschijnt: 29 september 2025

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken, portret, Wetenschap

Dava Sobel – The Elements of Marie Curie

Dava Sobel The Elements of Marie Curie recensie, review en informatie boek over de vrouwelijke Nobelprijswinnaar voor natuurkunde en scheikunde. Op 24 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Fourth Estate het nieuwe boek over Marie Curie, geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijfster Dava Sobel. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Dava Sobel The Elements of Marie Curie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Sobel is an elegant stylist, a riveting and efficient storyteller, a writer who can bring the dustiest of subjects to full-blooded life.”  (New York Times)
  • “Sobel’s enthusiasm for her subject is absolute and she succeeds in transmitting it to the reader, quite a feat when the subject matter can be so tricky to grasp.” (Sunday Telegraph)

Dava Sobel The Elements of Marie Curie

The Elements of Marie Curie

How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

  • Auteur: Dava Sobel (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: portret
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 24 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 11,99 / £ 17,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Dava Sobel over Marie Curie

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longtitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory.

For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings, and despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls; grieving the death of her husband, Pierre, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne, devotedly raised two daughters, drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I, befriended Albert Einstein and inspired generations of young women to pursue science as a way of life.

Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle, Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame alongside the women who became her legacy – from Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch and France’s Marguerite Perry, who discovered the element francium, to her own daughter, Irene, a Nobel Prize winner in her own right. Elements of Marie Curie deftly illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.

Dava Sobel (15 juni 1947, The Bronx, New York City) is the internationally renowned author of ‘Longitude’ and ‘Galileo’s Daughter’. She is also an award-winning former science reporter for the ‘New York Times’ and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the ‘New Yorker’, ‘Audubon’, ‘Discover’, ‘Life’ and ‘Omni’. She is currently writing a book called ‘The Planets’ for Fourth Estate. She lives in East Hampton, New York.

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Culinair, Culinaire boeken, Engelse schrijvers, Memoir

Nigel Slater – A Thousand Feasts

Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts recensie, review en informatie over de culinaire memoir van de Britse food columnist en schrijver. Op 26 september 2024 verschijnt bij Fourth Estate het nieuwe boek van de Engelse culinair schrijver en journalist Nigel Slater. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het nieuwe boek van Nigel Slater is niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts recensie, review en informatie

  • “Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour.” (Elizabeth Day, Engelse schrijfster)

Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts

A Thousand Feasts

Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts

  • Auteur: Nigel Slater (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: culinaire memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 26 september 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 12,99 / £ 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van de Engelse foodcolumnist en schrijver Nigel Slater

From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.

For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.

These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.

This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.

Nigel Slater (9 april 1956, Wolverhampton, Engeland) is a bestselling and award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years and is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His memoir Toast won six awards and became a film and stage production. He lives in London.

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Biografie, Engeland, portret

Craig Brown – A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown A Voyage Around the Queen recensie, review en informatie van de biografie van de Britse koningin Elizabeth II. Op 29 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Fourth Estate het boek over Queen Elizabeth II van de Britse criticus en satiricus Craig Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Craig Brown A Voyage Around the Queen recensie, review en informatie

  • “Enthralling… deliciously gossipy” (Mail on Sunday)
  • “An enthralling reverie on memory, identity, coincidence and meaning – testing, teasing, charming, moving and deceptively wise.” (Rory Stewart)
  • “Completely and utterly brilliant and exquisitely funny and fascinating. This book is, dare I say, majestic. Craig Brown has no peers – I would curtsey to him if I met him.” (Marina Hyde)

Craig Brown A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

  • Auteur: Craig Brown (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie, portret
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 29 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 672 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 25,00 / £ 14,99 / £ 20.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Queen Elizabeth II van Craig Brown

From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma’am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and fascinating biography.

Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix played her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with her; Andy Warhol envied her fame; Donald Trump offended her; E.M. Forster confessed he would have married her, if only she had been a boy.

Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. When people spoke of her, they spoke of themselves; when they dreamed of her, they dreamed of themselves. She mirrored their hopes and anxieties. To the optimist, she seemed an optimist; to the pessimist, a pessimist; to the awestruck, charismatic; and to the cynical, humdrum. Though by nature reserved and unassuming, her presence could fill presidents and rock gods with terror. For close to a century, she inhabited the psyche of a nation.

Combining biography, essays, cultural history, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma’am Darling and One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns.

Craig Brown (23 mei 1957, Hayes, West London) has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a widevariety of publications, including the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Spectator. His books include One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Ma’am Darling, which won the James Tait Black award.

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Schotse auteur

K. Patrick – Mrs. S

K. Patrick Mrs. S recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de uit Schotland afkomstige auteur. Op 6 juni 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Fourth Estate de debuutroman van de Schotland woonachtige auteur K. Patrick. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

K. Patrick Mrs. S recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Mrs. S. Het boek is geschreven door K. Patrick. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de eerste roman van K. Patrick.

K. Patrick Mrs. S recensie debuutroman

Mrs. S

  • Auteur: K. Patrick (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate Ltd
  • Verschijnt: 6 juni 2023
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van K. Patrick

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortlisted writer K Patrick.

In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.” Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.

That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite—an assured, authoritative paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless summer, their unspoken yearning blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer fades, a choice must be made.

Seductive, stylish, and disarmingly wry, K Patrick’s bold and revelatory debut smolders with the heat of summer as it explores the queer experience and the force of forbidden love.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Jonathan Escoffery – If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman, shortlist Booker Prize 2023. Op 6 september 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Forth Estate de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jonathan Escoffery. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman If I Survive You. Het boek is geschreven door Jonathan Escoffery. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse auteur Jonathan Escoffery.

Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You recensie

If I Survive You

  • Auteur: Jonathan Escoffery (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaans roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fourth Estate
  • Verschijnt: 6 september 2022
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2023

Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Escoffery

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.”

Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper–himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica–Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin Cukie searches for a father who doesn’t want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.

Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery’s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and white supremacy. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.

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