We Are Light

Based on the true story of Leonoor van Beuzekom, the leader of a small cult, who manipulated her sister Jeannette into starving herself to death in 2017
https://www.contactmuziek.nl/
https://www.facebook.com/LeonoorvanBeuzekom/
Van Beuzekom says, among other things, on Facebook: "Last Thursday my sister Jeannette passed on to another world, passed away peacefully. Unfortunately all hell broke loose after that and from one moment to the next we were evicted from our house and taken to a cell, suspected of negligence."
https://leonoor-deelt.blogspot.com/2016/05/hoe-gaat-het-met-je-zus-jeannette_16.html
One apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth starved to death, in front of her roommates. All of them believed that not eating and living on light alone was giving their live meaning. What felt right, to them, is impossible to believe from the outside. The remaining members of the idealistic group become suspects in a criminal case.
Each of the 25 chapters opens with the words "We are ...," and the story of the death is told by a different narrator: from Elisabeth's parents and siblings, the neighbors and her sister's lawyer, to the night, the daily bread, the scent of an orange, dementia, doubt, and Elisabeth's own body. Each narrator has a unique and distinct voice and makes an essential contribution to the novel's complex tapestry.
The reader is taken by surprise by the changing perspectives, and led through successive emotions of concern, outrage, and resignation
Gerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet
We Are Light, her debut novel, won the EU Literature Prize as well as the prestigious Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Libris Literature Award.
Blees calls into question the judgments we pass on idealistic people such as the novel's protagonists, and she allows us to empathize with people we initially thought we'd never be able to relate to
Michele Hutchison's translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's novel The Discomfort of Evening was awarded the International Booker Prize. She also co-authored the successful parenting book, The Happiest Kids in the World.
Translation Deals:
German (Zsolnay/Hanser)
Italian (Iperborea)
Croatian (Hena Com)
Serbian (Treci Trg)
Slovene (Zalozba Goga)
Bulgarian (Perseus)
Spanish (Editorial Seperis)

Taschenbuch 08/2023

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GERDA BLEES
Gerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet. She taught at various universities for several years while doing linguistic research on Dutch-German lingua receptiva?conversations in which each person speaks their own language. We Are Light, Blees's debut novel, won the EU Literature Prize as well as the prestigious Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Libris Literature Award. The author recently completed a bachelor's degree in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam while living with her family in Woerden.

MICHELE HUTCHISON
Michele Hutchison studied at UEA, Cambridge, and Lyon universities and worked in publishing for a number of years. In 2004, she moved to Amsterdam. Among the many works she has translated are La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Slaves to Fortune by Tom Lanoye, both Craving and Roxy by Esther Gerritsen, and Stadium IV by Sander Kollaard, for which she received the Vondel Translation Prize 2020. In the same year, her translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's novel The Discomfort of Evening was awarded the International Booker Prize. She also co-authored the successful parenting book, The Happiest Kids in the World.

Produktdetails

EAN / 13-stellige ISBN	978-1642861273
10-stellige ISBN	1642861278
Verlag	WORLD ED LLC
Sprache	Englisch
Editionsform	Taschenbuch
Einbandart	Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum	01. August 2023
Seitenzahl	240
Warengruppe des Lieferanten	Belletristik - Sonstiges
Mehrwertsteuer	7% (im angegebenen Preis enthalten)

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