We Are Light - Couverture souple

Blees, Gerda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912987511 ISBN 13 : 9781912987511

Editeur : World Editions Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025

Winner of the Dutch Booksellers Prize and the EU Literature Prize

In the middle of a summer night, Elisabeth, the oldest resident of the Sound & Love Commune, dies. Her sister Melodie and their two other housemates are arrested: the group’s attempts to stop eating and start living on light and love alone appear to have been fatal to Elisabeth. From unworldly idealists on the fringes of society, the remaining three suddenly become suspects in a criminal case. Through the eyes of the night, the neighbours, doubt, the scent of an orange, and many other characters and entities, we see how each of those involved gives a different answer to the question of how Elisabeth came to die. Who is to blame? And does the commune still have a future? We Are Light is a highly original novel about manipulation, vulnerability, and what leads people to reject science as they try to be better.

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À propos des auteurs

Gerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet. She taught at various universities for several years while doing linguistic research on Dutch-German lingua receptiva—conversations in which each person speaks their own language. We Are Light, Blees’s debut novel, won the EU Literature Prize as well as the prestigious Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Libris Literature Award. The author recently completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam

Michele Hutchison is a renowned Amsterdam-based translator and author. Her translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s novel The Discomfort of Evening was awarded the International Booker Prize

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912987511
• ISBN 13: 9781912987511
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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