Margriet de Moor, Author, Margriet De Moor, Author Overlook Press $24.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-58567-003-1
Dutch author de Moor makes her American debut with a tempestuous tale of lust, longing and loss among the aristocracy in 18th-century Naples. Carlotta Caetani, who narrates, is 10 when she feels her first sensual stirrings, listening to the angelic...
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Margriet de Moor, Author, Margriet De Moor, Author, Susan Massotty, Translator , trans. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty. Arcade $19.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-55970-744-2
Dutch novelist de Moor (Duke of Egypt
) traces narrative arabesques around the terrible romantic jealousy suffered by a blind music critic in this spare, delicate novel. In a series of chance encounters at European airports over the years, the...
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Margriet de Moor, Author, Margriet De Moor, Author, Paul Vincent, Translator , trans. from the Dutch by Paul Vincent. Arcade $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55970-546-2
De Moor has crafted this complex novel as if she were the composer of a piece of haunting chamber music, orchestrating the heartaches, loves, fortunes and losses of a wandering gypsy whose family is torn apart by the cruelty of post-WWII Europe, and
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Margriet de Moor, Author, Carol Brown Janeway, Translator , trans. from the Dutch by Carol Brown Janeway. Knopf $24.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-307-26494-7
A laborious translation doesn’t help to recommend this otherwise gripping story of dueling Dutch sisters who become separated by a monstrous meteorological anomaly. Lidy takes her sister Armanda’s place on a group trip that ends with a...
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Margriet De Moor, Author, Margriet de Moor, Author , trans. from the Dutch by Paul Vincent. Overlook $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58567-137-3
Vincent's lucid translation of Dutch writer de Moor's (The Virtuoso) latest novel brings to life a stunning literary tale of passion and deception revolving around the enigmatic Magda Rezková, a perplexing figure who makes an...
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