Gebrek is een groot woord
by Nina Polak
Description
Nynke ‘Skip’ Nauta has already been at sea for seven years when, in the Cannes Marina, her past catches up with her. There she sees the Zeno family with their brilliant adolescent son, Juda. The enthusiastic Zenos have previously taken good care of Skip and they invite her to spend a summer in their garden pavilion in Amsterdam.
Reluctantly, Skip accepts the invitation and travels back to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam she finds a city and a family slowly being eroded by the zeitgeist. Moreover, in the overcrowded, well-trodden streets of Amsterdam, there is no escape from the traces of two lost loves: a man and a mother, both of whom have tried unsuccessfully to drag Skip with them into tragedy.
Skip, the heroine, has always successfully opposed the roles forced upon her, but this time she will have to reconsider her outsider status. The question: Can an exile ever be at home?
Great Love Comes To Mind is a novel about the disorientation between freedom and belonging. A book about attachment to each other, but also to our own reality.
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Marketing Information
Winner BNG Bank Literature Prize 2018
Winner Inktaap 2020
Shortlisted Opzij Literature Prize 2018
Longlisted Libris Literature Prize 2019
Longlisted BookSpot Literature Prize 2018
Reviews
“We already knew Polak could write well, but we didn’t know she could write ‘bad’ well.” - de Volkskrant ★★★★
“It is tempting to read this novel slowly to stay in this universe for as long as possible, to savour its senses. The emotion that wells up from the language is enormous.” – NRC Handelsblad ★★★★
“Polak has written a special story, with which she expresses the spirit of the times: everything and everyone has a voice and an opinion, information has no hierarchy, nothing is unambiguous, but we still want to understand anyone who doesn’t fall in line.” – Het Parool
Author Biography
Nina Polak (1986) studied at the University of Amsterdam and at the New School University in New York. She is an editor for the online platform De Correspondent. Polak has won the BNG Bank Literature Prize 2018 and she received the Charlotte Köhler Stipend 2018.
Uitgeverij Prometheus
Prometheus Publishers is a Dutch publisher that publishes a wide variety of quality fiction and non-fiction titles. Prometheus’s catalogue balances established talents with new voices that we introduce into the literary market. Amongst our fiction authors are renowned Dutch-language authors such as Connie Palmen, Griet Op de Beeck, Tom Lanoye, Tim Krabbé, and Esther Verhoef. Prometheus also publishes the Dutch translations of great international voices like Umberto Eco, Sandro Veronesi, Margaret Atwood, and Zadie Smith. Our non-fiction catalogue is filled with experts from across the scientific spectrum. Ranging from history to psychology and from physics to literary studies, Prometheus offers exciting new insights into a wide range of disciplines. Prometheus also publishes a philosophical series with musings on subjects that are relevant to our society today.
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- Publisher Uitgeverij Prometheus
- Publication Date January 2018
- Orginal LanguageDutch
- ISBN/Identifier 9789044629866
- Publication Country or regionNetherlands
- FormatPaperback
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
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