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Ierse roman, Ierse schrijfster, Irish novel

Sara Baume – Opening Night

Sara Baume Opening Night review and information of the content of the new novel by the Irish writer. Granta Books will publish the Sara Baume novel, on February 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Sara Baume Opening Night

Opening Night

  • Author: Sara Baume (Ireland)
  • Book type: Irish novel
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • To be released: Febryary 12, 2026
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 16.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Sara Baume novel

I met Mollie’s paintings before I met Mollie.

Shortly after the imposed isolation of the pandemic, Sara Baume came across a painting at a pop-up exhibition in a renovated shed in rural West Cork. It so intrigued her that she was inspired to make contact with the artist. Mollie Douthit, a North Dakotan exile, was living and working alone in a log cabin down a ravaged laneway surrounded by rugged coastline. Sara and Mollie discovered they had much in common – a dysfunctional attitude towards companionship, a devotion to the daily rituals of their respective art practices, an affinity with nature. They started to meet every month for soup and punishing swims in the Atlantic.

Sara fell under the spell of Mollie’s paintings, pictures that welded memory and reality, and gradually started to write about them, curious as to whether any particular insight might be provided by the intimacy of friendship with the artist, and whether it might be possible to craft a book in the style of the paintings. But what she had not anticipated was that a settled period in her own life would coincide with a period of tumultuous change for Mollie, and soon she found herself squabbling with more complex ideas, about community and nationality, about neurosis and mysticism, about love and pain and the power of art.

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American Novel, Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Ben Lerner – Transcription

Ben Lerner Transcription review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Granta Books will publish the Ben Lerner novel, on April 9, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Ben Lerner Transcription reviews

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Ben Lerner Transcription

Transcription

  • Author: Ben Lerner (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • To be released: April 9, 2026
  • Length: 144 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Ben Lerner novel

A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device – a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.

Ben Lerner was born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

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Canadese roman, Canadese schrijfster

Sarah Bernstein – Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein Study for Obedience recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Canada, shortlist Booker Prize 2023. Op 6 juli 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Granta de roman van de Canadese schrijfster Sarah Bernstein. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Sarah Bernstein Study for Obedience recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Study for Obedience. Het boek is geschreven door Sarah Bernstein. 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 Canadese auteur Sarah Bernstein.

Sarah Bernstein Study for Obedience recensie

Study for Obedience

Flaptekst van de roman van Sarah Bernstein

A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings – more than she cares to remember – from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family’s ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs – collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog’s phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother’s property.

Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill.

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Noorse roman, Noorse schrijfster

Kjersti A. Skomsvold – The Child

Kjersti A. Skomsvold The Child recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze Noorse roman. Op 13 mei 2021 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Granta Books de Engelse vertaling van de roman Barnet van de Noorse schrijfster Kjersti A. Skomsvold. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kjersti A. Skomsvold The Child recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman The Child. Het boek is geschreven door Kjersti A. Skomsvold. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud dit boek met autobiografische verhalen over de dochter van een Amerikaanse soldaat en een Japanse moeder die opgroeide op het eiland Okinawa.

Kjersti A. Skomsvold The Child

The Child

  • Schrijfster: Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (Noorwegen)
  • Soort boek: Noorse roman
  • Origineel: Barnet (2018)
  • Engelse vertaling: Martin Aitken
  • Uitgever: Granta Books
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2021
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Kjersti A. Skomsvold

A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time.

She tells of the times before the child was born, when the world felt unsure and enveloped in darkness, of long nights with an older lover, of her writing career and the precariousness of beginning a relationship and then a family with her husband, Bo.

A portrait of modern motherhood, The Child is a love story about what it means to be alive and stay alive, no matter how hard the journey.

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Franse roman, Martinique

Patrick Chamoiseau – Texaco

Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco roman uit Martinique uit 1992 recensie en informatie. In 1992 verscheen de roman Texaco van de uit Martinique afkomstige Franstalige schrijver Patrick Chamoiseau die hiervoor de prestigieuze Prix Goncourt 1992 ontving. De roman is in het Nederlands vertaald die alleen nog antiquarisch verkrijgbaar is. Wel is het mogelijk om de Engelse vertaling van de roman nieuw te kopen.

Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Texaco. Het boek is geschreven door Patrick Chamoiseau. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de roman uit 1992 van de uit Martinique afkomstige Franse schrijver Patrick Chamoiseau.

Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco roman uit Martinique

Texaco

  • Schrijver: Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)
  • Soort boek: sociale roman
  • Taal: Frans
  • Verschenen: 27 augustus 1992
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Texaco
  • Heruitgave: Gallimard Folio
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Winnaar Prix Goncourt 1992

Flaptekst van de roman van Patrick Chamoiseau

«Une vieille femme câpresse, très grande, très maigre, avec un visage grave, solennel, et des yeux immmobiles. Je n’avais jamais perçu autant d’autorité profonde irradier de quelqu’un… Elle mélangeait le créole et le français, le mot vulgaire, le mot précieux, le mot oublié, le mot nouveau…» Et c’est ainsi que Marie-Sophie Laborieux raconte à l’auteur plus de cent cinquante ans d’histoire, d’épopée de la Martinique, depuis les sombres plantations esclavagistes jusqu’au drame contemporain de la conquête des villes.

D’abord, les amours d’Esternome, le «nègre-chien» affranchi, avec la volage Ninon qui périt grillée dans l’explosion de la Montagne Pelée, puis avec Idoménée l’aveugle aux larmes de lumière, qui sera la mère de Marie-Sophie. Dans les temps modernes, Marie-So erre d’un maître à l’autre, au gré de mille et un «djobs» qui l’initient à l’implacable univers urbain. Ses amours sont sans lendemain. Devenue l’âme du quartier Texaco, elle mène la révolte contre les mulâtres de la ville, contre les békés qui veulent s’approprier les terres, contre les programmes de développement qui font le temps-béton.

Patrick Chamoiseau a sans doute écrit, avec Texaco, le grand livre de l’espérance et de l’amertume du peuple antillais, depuis l’horreur des chaînes jusqu’au mensonge de la politique de développement moderne. Il brosse les scènes de la vie quotidienne, les moments historiques, les fables créoles, les poèmes incantatoires, les rêves, les récits satiriques. Monde en ébullition où la souffrance et la joie semblent naître au même instant.

Texaco

  • Schrijver: Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)
  • Soort boek: sociale roman
  • Origineel: Texaco (1992)
  • Engelse vertaling: Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokurov
  • Uitgever: Granta Books
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback 
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Winnaar Prix Goncourt 1992

Recensie en waardering voor de roman

  • “One of the major fictional achievements of our century.” (The Times)

Flaptekst van de Engelse vertaling van Texaco

On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town. It goes by the name of Texaco.

One dawn, a stranger arrives – an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco’s history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost.

Texaco is a creole masterpiece. Told in a newly forged language, it is a riotous collage of indigenous Caribbean and colonial European influences; a kaleidoscopic epic of slavery and revolution, superstition and imagination; a story of human deceits and desires played out to the backdrop of uncontrollable, all powerful History. First published in 1992, it was awarded France’s highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt, and remains an unequivocal classic of Caribbean literature.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Autobiografieën Memoires

Elizabeth Miki Brina – Speak, Okinawa

Elizabeth Miki Brina Speak, Okinawa recensie en informatie autobiografisch boek. Op 1 april 2021 verschijnt bij Granta Books die autobiografische boek van schrijfster Elizabeth Miki Brina. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek beschikbaar of aangekondigd.

Elizabeth Miki Brina – Speak, Okinawa recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Speak, Okinawa, a memoir. Het boek is geschreven door Elizabeth Miki Brina. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud dit boek met autobiografische verhalen over de dochter van een Amerikaanse soldaat en een Japanse moeder die opgroeide op het eiland Okinawa.

Elizabeth Miki Brina - Speak, Okinawa Recensie

Speak, Okinawa

  • Schrijfster: Elizabeth Miki Brina (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoires
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Granta Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 april 2021
  • Omvang: 289 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Recensie en waardering van het boek

  • “Brina captivates in her stunning and intimate debut memoir . . . This nuanced tale goes both wide and deep, and is as moving as it is ambitious. Memoir lovers will be enthralled.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Brina recounts, with piercing candidness and clarity, the almost claustrophobic world of an only child and her parents . . . The memoir is also a portrait of the devastating effects of imperialism and racism on a person’s identity, self-worth, and relationships–and offers a perspective on how a person can combat these legacies.” (Akemi Johnson, The Washington Post)

Flaptekst van het boek over Okinawa van Elizabeth Miki Brina

Here’s a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child.

Here’s another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World War Two, after slaughtering a third of the island’s population; the beautiful Japanese woman lives in poverty and marries the soldier as a way to escape.

Here’s a third version. A little girl grows up with a mother who can’t pronounce her name. She meets blood relatives with whom she cannot communicate. She clings to a sense of whiteness that white peers will not let her claim. She is born as the convergence of these conflicting stories and as she grows up she must reclaim her own narrative.

Speak, Okinawa is Elizabeth Miki Brina’s courageous and heart-breaking testament to the struggle for belonging. It is a story about the immigrant experience; it is a story about how it feels to grow up biracial; it is a story about the island of Okinawa, from its first inhabitants to its colonisation by Japan and the United States. But above all, it is a story about reckoning with your history, and the links that tie you to your heritage and give you a sense of home within yourself.

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