Arnon Grunberg

Amuse-Bouche (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When you're dead, I figure you can quit adjusting to other people, but until then life is all about adjusting.' So reflects Arnon Grunberg, as he finds himself high-fiving an elderly drug-dealer and her husband in a Las Vegas hotel room. Bizarre, garrulous, self-confident, often desperately lonely; such is the variety of characters Grunberg meets in Amsterdam or New York it s thanks only to this ability to adjust, and quietly tune in, that we re able to share so many private worlds, or be moved by the most fleeting encounters. From the rich widow blowing her husband's fortune on slot machines because she doesn't believe in an afterlife, to the language student telling of her arrival in America under the hood of a truck, Grunberg moves effortlessly between worlds. Be it cynical high society New York, claustrophobic family arguments back in Amsterdam, or simply small-talking with waiters in the people-watching capital of the world, Grunberg steals glimpses deep into the most guarded of lives, sharing moments of joy and absurdity at every turn. The perfect appetiser for a major, emerging voice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comma Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910974896
• Artikelnr.: 62770132

Autorenporträt

Arnon Grunberg is one of Holland's most prolific and acclaimed writers and the award-winning author of Blue Mondays and The Story of My Baldness. Ron de Klerk and Lisa Friedman are literary translators who have previously collaborated on titles such as Deep Light by Marnix Goossens, For Posterity by Arnon Grunberg, and Hidden Curriculum: A Project by Annette Krauss.