Lucas Rijneveld

My Heavenly Favourite

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Übersetzer: Hutchison, Michele (Commissioning Editor & Foreign Rights Manager)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.' Daisy JohnsonIn the tempestuous summer of 2005, a local veterinarian becomes enraptured by a 14-year-old farmer's daughter - his 'favourite' - as he tends her father's cows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 147mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780571375493
• ISBN-10: 0571375499
• Artikelnr.: 69031683

Autorenporträt

Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection, Calf's Caul, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, The Discomfort of Evening,which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.