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Helen Oyeyemi – Mr. Fox

Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox review, recensie en informatie roman uit 2011 van de in Nigeria geboren Britse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman M.r Fox van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Helen Oyeyemi. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox review en recensie

  • “A wonderfully original novel, full of images and turns of phrase so arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has given us a work of playful charm and serious narrative pleasure.” (Sarah Waters)
  • “Oyeyemi’s characters almost dance on their pages. This is her best, most beautiful novel yet.” (The Independent)
  • “Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling.” (The Guardian)

Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox

Mr. Fox

  • Auteur: Helen Oyeyemi (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador Collection
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Verschijnt: 12 juni 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Helen Oyeyemi roman uit 2011

Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and love.

It’s a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn’t seen her in six years. He’s unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn’t exist. He’s infatuated with her. But he also made her up.

Will Mr Fox meet his muse’s challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love? What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden change in her husband? Can there be a happy ending – this time?

Helen Oyeyemi was born on 10 December 1984 in Ibadan, Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from the age of four. Mr. Fox 2011 Helen Oyeyemi Novel written by the Nigerian born British author first editionWhile she was in college, Oyeyemi’s plays Juniper’s Whitening and Victimese were performed by fellow students. She the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, White is for Witching (which won the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Pieces, Gingerbread, A New Me and the short story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

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Australische roman, Australische schrijfster, Debuutroman, Historische Roman, IJsland

Hannah Kent – Burial Rites

Hannah Kent Burial Rites review, recensie en informatie historische IJsland roman van de Australische schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de historische roman Burial Rites van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster Hannah Kent die zich Noord-IJsland afspeelt in 1829.

Hannah Kent Burial Rites review en recensie

  • “A story of swirling sagas, poetry, bitterness, claustrophobia . . . through the long countdown towards Agnes’s fate, it is Kent’s heart-racing imagery that lingers . . . even the bleakness of Agnes’s end, its gut-churning fear, holds an exhilaration that borders on the sublime.” (The Sunday Telegraph)
  • “A debut of rare sophistication and beauty – a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told.” (Observer)

Hannah Kent Burial Rites

Burial Rites

  • Auteur: Hannah Kent (Australië)
  • Soort boek: historische IJsland roman uit 2013, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador Collection
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische IJsland roman van Hannah Kent

Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.

Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes’s death looms, the farmer’s wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they’ve heard.

Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De laatste rituelen is alleen nog tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

Hannah Kent was born in 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in the Adelaide Hills, as a bit of a solitary child who loved to Burial Rites Historical Iceland Novel from 2013 by Hannah Kent the Autralian author first editionread. After finishing school she attended a course in creative writing course at Flinders University and earned a PhD.  She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is the author of Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion and Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Antigua & Barbuda, coming-of-age roman

Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review, recensie en informatie roman over Antigua uit 1985 van de op het eiland geboren schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek Annie John van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jamaica Kincaid. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review en recensie

  • “What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.” (Ali Smith)
  • “An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer … thrilling.” (Susan Sontag)
  • “So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us … and that’s exactly the book’s strength, its wisdom, its truth.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl’s passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness.” (Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times)

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John

  • Annie John

    • Auteur: Jamaica Kincaid (Verenigde Staten)
    • Soort boek: coming of age-roman over Antigua uit 1985
    • Taal: Engels
    • Uitgever: Picador Collection
    • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
    • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
    • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
    • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

    Flaptekst van de roman van Jamaica Kincaid over Antigua

    A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.

    An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow.

    When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a ‘young lady’, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.

    Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949  in St. John’s, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s mother removed her from school at 16 to help support the family when her third and last brother was born, because her stepfather was ill and could no longer provide for the family. when Kincaid was 17, her mother sent her Annie John Jamaica Kincaid novel from 1985 first editionto Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City, to work as an au pair. refused to send money home and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later. Before she wrote her debut novel Annie John, she wrote short stories wich wehere published in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New Yorker and the new papers The New York Times. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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