Breakwater
Autor Marijke Schermer Traducere de Liz Watersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2023
- Widely compared to the work of Ian McEwan, with an ending that mocks classical forms and norms
- Marijke Schermer's debut novel, published in 2016, before Love, If That's What It Is, but never translated into English
- World Editions has published Schermers 2nd book already in 2022, to a great Publishers Weekly review: ?The author expertly humanizes each of the characters' desires and flaws as she illuminates the raw, inner workings of a broken marriage. This is as cathartic as it is gut-churning. (Feb.)?
- As she did in Love, If That's What It Is, Schermer brings forth the unspoken paradoxes that lurk in every household; the need to be sheltered versus the desire to be free, the craving for intimacy versus the inability to share one's secrets
- A woman who seems to have it all is haunted by a traumatic experience of sexual violence in her past, which she has kept hidden from her husband and her inability to tell him drives the couple apart
- Timely climate-change angle, as heavy rains and flooding mirror the main character's emotional turmoil
- Schermer's knife-sharp observations about human behavior and the incompetence to express oneself and really communicate with each other are absolutely masterful
- A refreshingly non-conformist take on marriage and the loss of personal identity that comes with it
- Breakwater is currently being made into a film
- Books about marriage and secrets are a category in their own right, with lots of dedicated readers
- Books about Marriage and Secret titles on Book Riot https://bookriot.com/books-about-marriage-and-secrets/
- Rights sold: Germany (Kampa Verlag), Denmark (Grif), Spain (Alfaguara)
- Shortlisted for the ECI Literary Prize 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781642861259
ISBN-10: 1642861251
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 125 x 201 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: World Editions
ISBN-10: 1642861251
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 125 x 201 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: World Editions
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Notă biografică
MARIJKE SCHERMER
Marijke Schermer is a novelist and playwright. Her stage work has been performed by several companies and translated into various languages. Her novel Breakwater was shortlisted for the ECI Literature Prize, has been sold to Spain, Switzerland, and Denmark, and is currently being made into a film. In 2019, her novel Love, If That's What It Is was published in Dutch (and subsequently in English by World Editions) and Schermer was hailed as ?fast becoming one of the most interesting writers in the Netherlands.? It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize 2020.
LIZ WATERS
After finishing her studies at the University of Manchester, Liz Waters worked for several years with English-language texts and at a literary agency in Amsterdam before becoming a full-time translator of literary fiction and non-fiction. Authors whose books she has translated include Lieve Joris, Jaap Scholten, Luuk van Middelaar, Annelies Verbeke, and Geert Mak.
Marijke Schermer is a novelist and playwright. Her stage work has been performed by several companies and translated into various languages. Her novel Breakwater was shortlisted for the ECI Literature Prize, has been sold to Spain, Switzerland, and Denmark, and is currently being made into a film. In 2019, her novel Love, If That's What It Is was published in Dutch (and subsequently in English by World Editions) and Schermer was hailed as ?fast becoming one of the most interesting writers in the Netherlands.? It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize 2020.
LIZ WATERS
After finishing her studies at the University of Manchester, Liz Waters worked for several years with English-language texts and at a literary agency in Amsterdam before becoming a full-time translator of literary fiction and non-fiction. Authors whose books she has translated include Lieve Joris, Jaap Scholten, Luuk van Middelaar, Annelies Verbeke, and Geert Mak.