Marcel Moring, Author , trans. from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. Morrow $22.95 (113p) ISBN 978-0-06-621240-1
Dutch novelist Möring (In Babylon) has penned a slim, elegant volume about a young boy coming of age in the Netherlands during the 1960s. David Speijir, a 12-year-old with a precocious bent for cooking, lives quietly with his parents. His...
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Marcel Moring, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (211p) ISBN 978-0-06-017243-5
Dutch novelist Moring's first novel to appear stateside, a lyrical, mildly existential tale of memory lost and refound, is set in an urban desert of stylized alienation. Sam van Djik, 30, has lost possession of his past and, accompanied by his twin...
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Marcel Moring, Author, Shaun Whiteside, Translator , trans. from the Dutch by Shaun Whiteside. Harper $24.99 (449p) ISBN 978-0-06-621241-8
This flat novel by the esteemed Dutch author Möring (In Babylon
) is occasionally interesting but lacks much memorable material. In a sort of riff on A Christmas Carol
, Jacob Noah, a Holocaust survivor turned wealthy Dutch businessman, dies in
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Marcel Moring, Author, Stacey Knecht, Translator William Morrow & Company $24 (417p) ISBN 978-0-688-17645-7
The arc of this grand, engrossing novel spans four centuries and two continents. Trapped by ""the winter to end all winters"" in an isolated house in the country, Nathan Hollander, a 60-year-old Dutch fairy-tale writer, and his niece, Nina, the last
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