Varkensribben
by Amarylis De Gryse
Description
For days, Marieke has been sleeping in a rental car parked along the canal. Just as she was about to do the laundry, her childhood sweetheart threw her out on the street. She lost her clothes, her home, and herself.
The summer is getting hotter and hotter. So is the care home where she works the morning shift as a nurse. Due to problems with the move from the old premises to the new, more modern building, Marieke is left alone with the elderly residents in the stifling heat. But as long as she does not think too much, everything will be okay.
She tries not to think about meatballs. About the old people wasting away in the facility. About that visitor she followed home. About her upbringing. About sausage with applesauce. About pralines. Or about raw meat and seafood salad.
Then everything will be alright. Or will it?
Pork Ribs is a tragicomic story about caring, loyalty, how memories affect a person’s life, and how food can be a substitute for all basic emotions.
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“If you produce such a powerful debut, you can’t surprise yourself […] Pork Ribs is the convincing result of such belief in one’s own talent. A must-read with images that will stay with you and sentences that you will remember.” - Krant van West-Vlaanderen
“Amarylis de Gryse knows how to take the reader by the scruff on the neck. In Pork Ribs’ opening scene, she immediately shows what she is capable of.” - De Morgen
Author Biography
Amarylis De Gryse (1989) writes fiction from a little wooden house next to the motorway. She grew up in West Flanders and lives in Antwerp, where she is retraining as a farmer. Pork Ribs is her debut novel.
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 2020
- Orginal LanguageDutch
- ISBN/Identifier 9789044643961
- Publication Country or regionNetherlands
- FormatPaperback
- Pages224
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
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