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Jeannette K. Ringold

Translations by Jeannette K. Ringold

The Secret (1997) [Buy Direct]

by Anna Enquist
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: Het geheim

Much the same ingredients as in her first novel have contributed to Anna Enquist’s award-winning second but have, paradoxically, produced a totally different work. If the first had a psychologist as one of its principal characters, (more...)

Gray Lover, the: Three Stories (1996) [Buy Direct]

by Carl Friedman
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: De grauwe minnaar

The Shovel and the Loom (1993) [Buy Direct]

by Carl Friedman
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: Twee koffers vol

Carl Friedman made her debut in 1991 with the successful short novel Nightfather and more than fulfilled the promise of that with her second book, The Shovel and the Loom, published two years later. It is set at the end of the 1960s, at the time of the Vietnam war, (more...)

The Masterpiece (1994) [Buy Direct]

by Anna Enquist
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: Het meesterstuk

Anna Enquist trained first as a pianist, then as a psychologist. At the beginning of the 1990s she started writing poetry and a little later novels as well. Published in 1994, The Masterpiece is her first and, as one might expect, takes a psychological problem as its theme. (more...)

The Fall (1983) [Buy Direct]

by Marga Minco
Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold
Original title: De Val

This book is a textured weaving of the elements of chance, fate, uncertainty, premonition and flashback. Minco draws on her Jewish background and her own personal experiences to relate the story of Frieda Borgstein, a Jewish woman who is the sole survivor from her family after the Second World War. (more...)

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