Het is alweer meer dan een kwartaal geleden sinds de laatste editie van onze boekenclub. Wat gaat de tijd toch snel!
Het was geen gemakkelijke opdracht om zelf voor een keer de boeken te nomineren... Telkens als ik dacht dat mijn keuze vastlag, besloot ik toch maar eens op te zoeken of alle boeken ook naar het Nederlands vertaald werden, en daar liep het meestal spaak. Ik ben er toch in geslaagd om drie ongelezen romans tussen mijn vele lijstjes te vinden die allen vertaald zijn, en waarin ik voldoende vertrouwen heb dat ze een breed lezerspubliek aanspreken.
Iedereen mag zich vrij voelen om mee te lezen! Je mag op zoveel boeken stemmen als je wil. Stemmen kan tot en met 27 april 2024.
1. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
"Maar zit die coldplayke nu echt serieus trilogieën te nomineren?!?!?!" Niet gevreesd: de drie novelles worden meestal samen in 1 boek verkocht en komen allemaal opgeteld neer op een 300-tal bladzijden.
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The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story, the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.
2. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. A testament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebration and acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This is the story of generations, as told through a family history written by Reverend John Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John records the tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggles with the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search of forgiveness and redemption.
3. Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.
Het was geen gemakkelijke opdracht om zelf voor een keer de boeken te nomineren... Telkens als ik dacht dat mijn keuze vastlag, besloot ik toch maar eens op te zoeken of alle boeken ook naar het Nederlands vertaald werden, en daar liep het meestal spaak. Ik ben er toch in geslaagd om drie ongelezen romans tussen mijn vele lijstjes te vinden die allen vertaald zijn, en waarin ik voldoende vertrouwen heb dat ze een breed lezerspubliek aanspreken.
Iedereen mag zich vrij voelen om mee te lezen! Je mag op zoveel boeken stemmen als je wil. Stemmen kan tot en met 27 april 2024.
1. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
"Maar zit die coldplayke nu echt serieus trilogieën te nomineren?!?!?!" Niet gevreesd: de drie novelles worden meestal samen in 1 boek verkocht en komen allemaal opgeteld neer op een 300-tal bladzijden.
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy #1-3)
The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected dete…
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story, the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.
2. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. A testament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebration and acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This is the story of generations, as told through a family history written by Reverend John Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John records the tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggles with the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search of forgiveness and redemption.
3. Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.
