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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale: an elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey shore, visits with friends, and tai chi at the local retirement community...

An exploration of the rejected drafts and abandoned projects of famous authors that dispels the myth of the creative genius and offers lessons for aspiring writers based on these setbacks and missteps"--

Immaginare di avercela fatta: non vi è soluzione migliore di questa, se si è concluso poco o niente nella vita. Ed è quello che fa il narratore anonimo di questo romanzo, sin da quando, tra le aule di un college, durante le lezioni di Narrativa e Poesia impartite dall'altezzoso professor Morissey all'insegna del motto "Tutta la verità dilla, ma dilla obliqua...", incontra Julian McGann, talentuoso ma tormentato scrittore, e decide di imitarlo....

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Jansma asks timeless questions in this enchanting debut novel about three great friends--two men and one woman--who experience triumphs and failures in life, love, globe-spanning adventures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe-from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's hopelessly unr...

een intrigerende roman. Jansma's personages exploreren behendig de vage grens tussen feit en fictie, en ontdekken de schaduwkant van de werkelijkheid aan weerszijde ervan.' - Publishers Weekly 'Dit sluwe en verleidelijke verhaal over de magie van het verhalen vertellen en de rampspoed die schrijvers ten deel valt, wordt verteld door een rondreizende, kameleontische schrijver die zichzelf Niemand noemt.' - Booklist Een betoverende, sluwe en v...

Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means to be part of a city in which you never quite belong, but can't quite bring yourself to leave. It's a heartfelt novel, tender and painful and cathartic all at once, and even if the characters belong to New York, the story belongs to us all." -NPRDecember, 20...

Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means to be part of a city in which you never quite belong, but can't quite bring yourself to leave. It's a heartfelt novel, tender and painful and cathartic all at once, and even if the characters belong to New York, the story belongs to us all." -NPRDecember, 20...