Edward Landauer, a brilliant microbiologist in his forties, meets a beautiful young woman. Ruth Walta appears to represent a victory over time, but even she cannot stop him growing older. And before long, their marriage descends into a clash between her idealism and his realism.
| Autor: | Wieringa, Tommy |
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| ISBN: | 9781925228410 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Scribe |
| Veröffentlicht: | 11.08.2016 |
| Schlagworte: | EIBF; Edinburgh International Book Festival; FICTION / Literary Fiction: general & literary Fiction in translation Netherlands |
Tommy Wieringa was born in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism, and is the author of several internationally bestselling novels. His fiction has been longlisted for the Booker International Prize, shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Oxford/Weidenfeld Prize, and has won Holland’s Libris Literature Prize.Sam Garrett has translated some fifty novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch–English translation.