Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The Discomfort of Evening

WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020

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A wish for a brother to be taken instead of a pet comes to fruition, with guilt set to ensue. A bestseller in its native Netherlands. A lyrical and radical depiction of Dutch rural family life.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hutchison, Michele (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-571-34936-4
EAN: 9780571349364
Produktnummer: 31912119
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.7 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.2 cm 326 g
Gewicht: 326

Über den Autor

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, their first poetry collection, Calf's Caul, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published their first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the 2020 Booker International Prize. Alongside their writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.Michele Hutchison was born in the UK and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. After a stint as an editor, she became a literary translator from Dutch. Her translations include the bestselling An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, Mona in Three Acts by Griet op de Beeck and Seaweed by Miek Zwamborn - and most recently, The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Riijneveld. She is also co-author of The Happiest Kids in the World.