Tatiana de Rosnay – De familiereünie
De alweer vijfde roman van Tatiana de Rosnay die ik gelezen heb, speelt zich voornamelijk af in een door een overstroming van de Seine geteisterd Parijs, waar de familie Malegarde… Read more »
Tag: coming of age
Theodor Kallifatides – Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
Theodor Kallifatides, a Greek immigrant who became a top-notch writer in Sweden suffers from a writer’s block. “Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend recommends. Should you really… Read more »
Jessica Wilbanks – When I Spoke in Tongues
Jessica Wilbanks’ family life was drenched in the Pentecostal substream of Christianity when she grew up, recognizable from my own teenage and young adult years. Revival meetings, altar calls, speaking… Read more »
Tom Seigel – The Astronaut’s Son
In 2005 Jonathan Stein has two missions to complete. The first one is well on its way: to return to the Moon as the first man back in three decades…. Read more »
John Fanning – Ezekiel
In seven days 99-year old Ezekiel Yusuf Moran reflects on his life as to hand down the Essene tradition to his grandson, Daniel. Jewish life in provincial France, French resistance… Read more »