Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018)
Forfatter af Et hjerte af sten : roman
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Renate Dorrestein is an internationally acclaimed author and one of Holland's best loved novelists. She was a journalist before writing her first novel, Outsiders, which was published in 1983. Her books have regularly appeared at the top of Dutch bestseller lists ever since. The recipient of vis mere numerous awards, her novels have been published in more than fifteen countries. She lives in the Netherlands Hester Velmans was born in the Netherlands and now lives outside New York City with her husband and two children. She has translated Edith's Story by Edith Velmans, The Lily Theater by Lulu Wang, and Dorrestein's A Heart of Stone, which received the prestigious Vondel Translation Prize vis mindre
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Værker af Renate Dorrestein
Katten en de kunst van het Boekenonderhoud 5 eksemplarer
Voorleesboek voor planten 3 eksemplarer
De zwarte hand, Over de promotie van literatuur 2 eksemplarer
Het tiende inzicht 1 eksemplar
La obscuridad que nos separa 1 eksemplar
Wenken voor de boekenkast 1 eksemplar
Verhalenbundel door vrouwen voor vrouwen 1 eksemplar
Het hemelse gerecht ; Verborgen gebreken 1 eksemplar
De wereld van renate dorrestein 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Joods-Amerikaanse literatuur — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Dorrestein, Renate Maria
- Fødselsdato
- 1954-01-25
- Dødsdag
- 2018-05-04
- Begravelsessted
- R.K. Begraafplaats St. Adelbert, Bloemendaal, Nederland.
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Nederland
- Fødested
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Dødssted
- Aerdenhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Bopæl
- Amsterdam, Nederland
Aerdenhout, Nederland - Erhverv
- schrijver
journalist - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Annie Romeinprijs (1993)
Jonge Gouden Uil (1997)
Ìnclusieve Griffel (2010)
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Het duister dat ons scheidt
Pittig geschreven!
Begint idyllisch, maar dan slaat de beklemming toe.
Een aparte knappe schrijfstijl!
Een aparte knappe schrijfstijl!
A claustrophobic family drama centred around the tumbledown home — in an anarchic, peripheral community poised on the edge of the modern world — of the widowed artist Job and his crippled daughter Maria, his housekeeper and only model for many years. All sorts of generation-bending tensions come out into the open when Job brings his new and very young girlfriend Felicity into the mix, whilst Maria's son and daughter-in-law (Cas and Xandra!) are busy having a designer baby.
There's a lot of symbolism going on, some heavy biblical references and apocalyptic weather, and a lot of fierce criticism of our (modern?) drive to control our own bodies and environments as well as the male possession and control of women's bodies.
Dorrestein explains in an endnote that Job's painting in the story is based on Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World" (1948, in the MOMA collection), but the characters are her own.… (mere)
There's a lot of symbolism going on, some heavy biblical references and apocalyptic weather, and a lot of fierce criticism of our (modern?) drive to control our own bodies and environments as well as the male possession and control of women's bodies.
Dorrestein explains in an endnote that Job's painting in the story is based on Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World" (1948, in the MOMA collection), but the characters are her own.… (mere)
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- #6,969
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- Anmeldelser
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- ISBN
- 294
- Sprog
- 11
- Udvalgt
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