Jij zegt het
by Connie Palmen
Description
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath formed the most famous romantic couple in modern Western literature. In Your Story My Story, the Dutch novelist Connie Palmen provides a voice for Hughes, who died in 1998. In the book, Hughes’s character looks back on a passionate marriage that ended on February 11, 1963 with the suicide of his wife. Hughes also looks back on his own life, which, from that moment on, would be dominated by her death. In the countless biographies of Plath, she is given the status of martyr and Hughes that of a traitor and murderer. He was reviled by strangers and even sued by people he once considered his friends.
Using great restraint and insight, Palmen describes the thoughts, fears and incantations of this husband, and his deeply tragic bond with the woman who would come to define his life. Your Story My Story, ultimately, is a poignant novel about love and death.
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Rights sold: German (Diogenes), Italian (Iperborea), Danish (TiderneSkifter), French (Actes Sud), Arabic (GeBo), Slovenian (Modrijan), Croatian (Naklada), Chinese (Orient), English (Amazon), Bulgarian (Colibri), Lithuanian (Gelmės)
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Winner Libris Literature Prize 2016
Shortlisted Italian Scrivere per Amore 2018
Longlisted Fintro Literature Prize 2016
Reviews
“Connie Palmen’s great strength in her well-written Your Story My Story is that you are immediately taken in by the voice of Ted Hughes. You forget that, in fact, it’s not his voice, but that of the writer. That means you have done your job as a novelist. Well done.” – Het Parool ★★★★
“Your Story My Story is captivatingly romantic.” – Elsevier ★★★★★
“Your Story My Story is Palmen’s best novel.” –NRC Handelsblad ★★★★
Author Biography
Connie Palmen (1955) made her debut in 1991 with her literary novel The Laws. In over a quarter of a century, she has written five great novels, a novella, numerous short stories, essays, and The Diary of a Merciless Year.
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 September 2015
- Orginal LanguageDutch
- ISBN/Identifier 9789044628104
- Publication Country or regionNetherlands
- FormatHardback
- Pages272
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2015
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