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Engelse schrijfsters, Ierland, Reisboeken, Reisverhalen

Ithell Colquhoun – The Crying of the Wind

Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review, recensie en informatie van de verhalen over Ierland uit 1955 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 5 juni 2025 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Puskin Press in de reeks classics de heruitgave van het boek met verhalen over Ierland van schrijfster en schilder Ithell Colquhoun. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review en recensie

  • “She has not only a painter’s eye but something of the natural sociability and engaging nosiness of the travelling artist…an original and perceptive companion.” (The Sunday Times)
  • “A rare and beautiful book…Has the authentic touch of the Gothic novelist.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind

The Crying of the Wind

Ireland

  • Auteur: Ithell Colquhoun (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse reisverhalen uit 1955
  • Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
  • Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Ithell Colquhoun The Crying of the Wind review en recensie

  • “She has not only a painter’s eye but something of the natural sociability and engaging nosiness of the travelling artist…an original and perceptive companion.” (The Sunday Times)
  • “A rare and beautiful book…Has the authentic touch of the Gothic novelist.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Flaptekst van het boek met Ierse reisverhalen van Ithell Colquhoun

Into the world of 1950s Ireland – a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class – arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a surrealist painter, Colquhoun’s travels around the island are guided by her artist’s eye and her feeling for the world beyond our own, as well as her spikily humorous view of the people she meets. We encounter faeries and pagan rituals, ruined churches and Celtic splendour, rowdy bohemians and Anglo-Irish landowners fallen on hard times, as the author carouses through Dublin and tramps the hills of Connemara in this classic travelogue.

Richly visual and full of sly wit, this is an account of Ireland as only Colquhoun could see it, a land where myth and magic meet wind and rain, and the song of the secret kingdom is heard on city streets.

Ithell Colquhoun was born on 9 October 1906 in Shillong, British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death. As well as The Crying of the Wind: Ireland, she is the author of The Living Stones: Cornwall and the novel Goose of Hermogenes, also available from Pushkin Press. She died at he age of 81 on 11 April 1988 in Cornwall.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Edith Wharton – The Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton The Glimpses of the Moon recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1922. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Edith Wharton. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Edith Wharton The Glimpses of the Moon recensie, review en informatie

  • “Wharton’s unjustly neglected novel… a luscious, worldly, sensuous read, surely the equal of its most obvious offspring – Tender is the Night.” (Boyd Tonkin, Independent)
  • “A master storyteller.” (Elizabeth Strout)

Edith Wharton The Glimpses of the Moon

The Glimpses of the Moon

  • Auteur: Edith Wharton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1922
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever heruitgave: Pushkin Press
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1922 van Edith Wharton

The power of money threatens young love in this charming story of romantic misadventure by one of the greatest authors of America’s Gilded Age.

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless. Gracefully moving through New York high society, they have the right connections but none of the wealth. When they inconveniently fall in love, Susy devises a plan. They will marry and spend a year flitting across Europe, staying in the homes of their rich friends and living off honeymoon gifts until either one of them meets a better, richer prospect.

But jealous passions and troubled consciences soon cause their idyll to crumble. Told with Edith Wharton’s trademark wit, Glimpses of the Moon is a tartly amusing story of social climbing and romantic misadventure from one of our greatest writers.

Edith Wharton (24 January 1862, New York City – 11 Augustus Edith Wharton The Glimpes of the Moon first edition from 19221937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France) was born in New York, into a rich and socially prominent family. She began to write at an early age, although it was a habit viewed by her family as unsuitable for a woman of her social class. In 1885 she married Edward “Teddy” Wharton, a Boston banker. They lived a privileged life, but Wharton gradually grew dissatisfied with the roles of wife and society matron. The Whartons moved to Paris in 1907 and divorced in 1913. Edith continued to live in France, her beloved adoptive home, until her death in 1937.

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India, Japanse roman, Japanse schrijver

Shusaku Endo – Deep River

Shusaku Endo Deep River recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Japan. Op 18 juli 2024 verschnijnt bij uitgeverij Pushkin Press in de reeks Classics de Engelse vertaling van de roman 深い河 uit 1993 van de uit Japanse schrijver Shusako Endo. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Shusaku Endo Deep River recensie en review

  • “One of the world’s greatest novelists.” (Washington Post)

Shusaku Endo Deep River

Deep River

Puskin Press Classic

  • Auteur: Shusaku Endo (Japan)
  • Soort boek: Japanse roman
  • Origineel: 深い河 (1993)
  • Engelse vertaling: Van C. Gessel
  • Uitgever: Puskin Press
  • Verschijnt: 18 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Japanse schrijver Shusaku Endo

A group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the devoted wife he neglected; gentle children’s writer Numanda seeks out the bird he believes saved his life; Kiguchi is haunted by his time as a soldier along the Highway of Death; and Mitsuko reconnects with the classmate she tempted away from the church and cruelly discarded.

At the softly lapping shores of the river – where the faithful come to bathe during their final moments – self-knowledge is sought and memories put to rest. Set against a rich backdrop of 90s India, Deep River is a beautifully moving story showing Endo at the height of his powers as a chronicler of religious experience.

Shusaku Endo (27 maart 1923, Tokio – 29 september 1996, Tokio) was one of the greatest novelists of postwar Japan. Baptised as a Roman Catholic as a child, his work explores the relationship between East and West from his unique perspective as a Japanese Christian. Endo won the Akutgawa Prize and the Yomiuri Literary Prize, was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, and received an Order of Culture from the Japanese government. His historical fiction novel, Silence, was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by the director Martin Scorsese.

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Nederlandse Romans, Nederlandse Schrijver

Gerard Reve – The Evenings

Gerard Reve The Evenings, Engelse vertaling van de Nederlandse roman uit 1947. Op 3 augustus 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Puskin Press in de reeks Classics de Engelse vertaling van de roman De avonden van de Nederlandse schrijver Gerard Reve.

Gerard Reve The Evenings

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman The Evenings. Het boek is geschreven door Gerard Reve. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de Engelse vertaling van de roman uit 1947 van de Nederlandse auteur Gerard Reve.

Gerard Reve The Evenings 1947

The Evenings

  • Auteur: Gerard Reve (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: Nederlandse roman
  • Origineel: De avonden (1947)
  • Engelse vertaling: Sam Gerret
  • Uitgever: Pushkin Press
  • Verschijnt: 3 augustus 2023
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs uitgever: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Engelse vertaling van De avonden van Gerard Reve

‘I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.’

Twenty-three-year-old Frits – office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes – finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.

This is the story of ten evenings in Frits’s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.

Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Verhalen

Edith Pearlman – Binocular Vision

Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision recensie en informatie verhalen uit 2011 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 3 augustus 2023 verschijnt in de reeks Pushkin Press Classics de heruitgave van de verhalenbundel Binocular Vision, geschreven door Edith Pearlman. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de bundel verkrijgbaar.

Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de verhalenbundel Binocular Vision. Het boek is geschreven door Edith Pearlman. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de het boek uit 2011 van de Amerikaanse verhalenschrijfster Edith Pearlman.

Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision recensie en informatie

Binocular Vision

  • Auteur: Edith Pearlman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: verhalenbundel uit 2011
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Puskin Press Classics
  • Verschijnt: 3 augustus 2023
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Waardering en recensie van het boek

  • “This book is a spectacular literary revelation.” (Sunday Times)

Flaptekst van de verhalenbundel Binocular Vision

Tenderly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captured life on the page like no one else. Spanning forty years of writing, moving from tsarist Russia to the coast of Maine, from Jerusalem to Massachusetts, these astonishing stories reveal one of America’s greatest modern writers.

Across a stunning array of scenes-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, an elderly couple’s decision to shoplift, an old woman’s deathbed confession of her mother’s affair-Edith Pearlman crafts a timeless and unique sensibility, shot through with wit, lucidity and compassion.

Edith Pearlman (Providence, Rhode Island, 26 juni 1936 – Brookline, Massachusetts, 1 januari 2023) published her debut collection of stories in 1996, aged 60. She won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work won three O. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Mary McCarthy Prize, among others. In 2011, Pearlman was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, which put her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.

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