Simone Atangana Bekono

Confrontations (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Jansen, Suzanne Heukensfeldt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Salomé was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her.
One day she finally snapped.
Now at just sixteen years old, she's being held in a secure unit for young offenders

Salomé's counsellor, the man whose good opinion is key to her release, is best known for his racist gaffes on reality TV. Her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of their small, close-minded village as soon as possible. Both at home and in the unit, things are unbearably tense.

Salomé finds it hard to keep her temper and harder still to think about the crime she is charged with committing. But as time passes, she finds new strength to delve into the reasons for her rage and arrive at her own understanding of punishment, penitence and the paradoxical demands made on her existence as a Black woman. Raw and unsentimental, Confrontations is a powerful depiction of racism and resilience from one of the Netherlands' most exciting new literary voices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800814776
• Artikelnr.: 68095677

Autorenporträt

Simone Atangana Bekono studied Creative Writing at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. In 2017 her poetry collection How the First Sparks Became Visible came out and was awarded the Poëziedebuutprijs Aan Zee for best first collection in 2018. The collection was published in the UK by Emma Press in January 2021. The major Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant listed her as one of the 3 literary talents twice, for the year 2020 and 2021. Confrontations is her first novel.

Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen's wide-ranging translation career began with comic strips for Marvel Comics whilst at college. Over the past decade or so, her focus has been on literary fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent translation is Colonial Congo - A History in Questions, a major survey of the Belgian colonial past.