John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1938. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster John Fante en deel van het Bandini kwartet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.
John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review en recensie
- “Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time.” (Time Literary Supplement)
- “Wait Until Spring, Bandini is not merely a novel; it’s an enduring testament to life’s raw truths, a timeless chronicle of human vulnerability and resilience, proving once and for all that genuine literature comes not from refinement but from honesty, from courageously confronting the brutal, beautiful mess of being alive.” (Independent Review of Books)
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Bandini Quartet
- Auteur: John Fante (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1938
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Cannongate Canons
- Omvang: 224 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1938 van John Fante
A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression.
With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.
De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.
John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado on 8 April 1909. He migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante’s literary fiction was full of 
torn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill – collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). John Fante died on 8 May 1983 in Los Angeles, California, due to diabetes-related complications at the age of 74. He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death.
