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Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018)

Autor/a de Àlbum de família

58+ obres 3,625 Membres 95 Ressenyes 16 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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 mostra'n menys
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Obres de Renate Dorrestein

Àlbum de família (2000) 447 exemplars
Want dit is mijn lichaam (1997) 278 exemplars
A Crying Shame (1996) 260 exemplars
The Darkness That Divides Us (2003) 210 exemplars
Without Mercy (2001) 180 exemplars
Het hemelse gerecht (1991) 172 exemplars
Buitenstaanders (1983) 171 exemplars
Unnatural Mothers (1992) 158 exemplars
Zolang er leven is (2007) 148 exemplars
Een sterke man (1994) 126 exemplars
Heden ik (1993) 121 exemplars
De leesclub (2010) 110 exemplars
Echt sexy (2007) 98 exemplars
Het geheim van de schrijver (2000) 91 exemplars
Is er hoop (2009) 74 exemplars
Noorderzon (1986) 71 exemplars
De stiefmoeder (2011) 70 exemplars
Een nacht om te vliegeren (1987) 63 exemplars
Vreemde streken (1984) 51 exemplars
Laat me niet alleen (2008) 46 exemplars
Voor liefde: klik op F (2006) 43 exemplars
Vóór alles een dame (1989) 40 exemplars
Korte metten (1988) 40 exemplars
Weerwater (2015) 37 exemplars
Zeven soorten honger (2016) 23 exemplars
Reddende engel (2017) 21 exemplars
De blokkade (2013) 16 exemplars
Liever horen we onszelf (2014) 15 exemplars
Pas goed op jezelf (2010) 10 exemplars
De zondagmiddagauto (2012) 9 exemplars
De stiefdochter (2014) 4 exemplars
Zonder genade ; Een sterke man (2011) 3 exemplars
De nieuwe man (1990) 2 exemplars
Het tiende inzicht 1 exemplars
Penvriendin in China (2015) 1 exemplars
Mens in uitvoering (2002) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Titaantjes waren we... : schrijvers schrijven zichzelf (2010) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Joods-Amerikaanse literatuur — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Wisselend decor (1998) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Inpakken en Wegwezen 1992 (1992) — Autor — 2 exemplars

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Baukis | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Feb 23, 2024 |
Begint idyllisch, maar dan slaat de beklemming toe.
Een aparte knappe schrijfstijl!
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Baukis | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Feb 21, 2024 |
Snel geschreven, toevallig weer wij perspectief. Beetje rommelig
 
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Uiltje48 | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Jan 10, 2024 |
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.
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thorold | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Jul 4, 2023 |

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Obres
58
També de
4
Membres
3,625
Popularitat
#6,986
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
95
ISBN
294
Llengües
11
Preferit
16

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