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Paul Vincent
Translations by Paul Vincent
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by Helga Ruebsamen
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Het lied en de waarheid
When it was first published in 1997, The Song and the Truth was an immediate commercial and critical success in the Netherlands. It tells the story of a young Dutch girl, Lulu Benda, growing up on the island of Java before the Second World War. (more...) |
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by Hans Van den Brink
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Over het water
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by Frank Martinus Arion
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Dubbelspel
The title of Arion’s large and powerful Carribean novel refers to an epic open-air game of dominoes, which lasts all afternoon and into the evening. Though it is ostensibly a relaxed and friendly occasion, underlying suspicions, jealousies and conflicts gradually surface. (more...) |
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by J. Bernlef
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Eclips
If Bernlef’s earlier novel Out of Mind described a decline into dementia and the loss of language that accompanies it, this book is its mirror image. (more...) |
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by Willem Bilderdijk
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Kort verhaal van eene aanmerkelijke luchtreis
This historical curiosity, a delightful science-fiction tale nearly contemporary with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, takes its cue from the world of ballooning. The first manned balloon flights took place in 1783, when a balloon sailed over Paris. (more...) |
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by Willem Elsschot
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Villa des Roses
Villa des Roses is set in a modest boarding house in Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. The reader comes to know its inhabitants, their quirks and their personal tragedies. (more...) |
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by Tip Marugg
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: De morgen loeit weer aan
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by Margriet de Moor
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw
Margriet de Moor made her debut with a successful collection of short stories in 1988, followed by the prize-winning Double Portrait (Dubbelportret, 1989), a collection of three novellas, and then this, her first novel, First Grey, Then White, Then Blue in 1991. (more...) |
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by Harry Mulisch
Translated by Paul Vincent
Original title: De ontdekking van de hemel
Though Harry Mulisch has been writing prolifically (drama, journalism and poetry, but mainly fiction) since the 1950s and The Discovery of Heaven is in all senses his magnum opus. Monumental in scale and hugely ambitious, (more...) |
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