Phoebe Greenwood Vulture review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de tragikomische coming of age-roman van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster en journalist Phoebe Greenwood. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Phoebe Greenwood Vulture review en recensie
- “Imagine Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag as a war correspondent in Gaza and you’d get Sara, the cynical and raunchy antiheroine of Phoebe Greenwood’s Vulture. Working from a generator-powered, four-star hotel for international media, Sara wreaks havoc on herself and everyone around her in a quest for an exclusive with the leader of a terrorist group. Greenwood covered the Middle East for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times, and the book’s portrayal of Gaza and its forsaken residents feels like an insider account. It’s hard to say that the book is hilarious given all the graphic death and destruction, but Vulture is a daring dark comedy that doesn’t shy away from the horrors that have been going on in the Palestinian territories for too long.” (NPR)
Vulture
- Auteur: Phoebe Greenwood (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Europa Editions
- Verschijnt: 12 augustus 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 Engelse schrijfster Phoebe Greenwood
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic coming-of-age novel.
In November 2012, Sara Byrne, an ambitious young journalist, is sent to Gaza to cover a war from The Beach. At the four-star hotel, staff work tirelessly to provide safety, comfort and generator-powered internet for the world’s media, even as their own homes and families are under threat.
Sara is determined to use this war to launch her stalling career and win back her lover. So, when her fixer Nasser refuses to set up the dangerous story she thinks will make her name, she turns instead to Fadi, the youngest member of a powerful militant family. Driven by the demons of a damaging, entitled, childhood, Sara will stop at nothing to prove herself, even if it brings disaster upon those around her.
Greenwood’s debut novel draws readers into the dark heart of western media, and with audacity and humour, questions its complicity in the tragedies that feed it.
Phoebe Greenwood is a writer and journalist living in London. Between 2010 and 2013, she was a freelance correspondent in Jerusalem covering the Middle East for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. From 2013 to 2021, she was an editor and correspondent at the Guardian specialising in foreign affairs.