A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration.
Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion,
Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for
the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more
intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer
manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias.
With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse,
Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is,
things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion
in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the
reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a
role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan... and
of Aaron's fragile psyche. 'One wild ride: a swirling helix of a
family saga...a new writer as toe-curling as early Roth, as roomy
as Franzen and as caustic as Houellebecq. Don't let me forget to
mention Jonathan Reeder's note-perfect English translation.'
Anthony Cummins, Sunday Telegraph, 5-stars 'Dutch bestseller about
internet porn lives up to hype....a considerable achievement for a
seasoned writer, much less a newcomer...' James Kidd, Independent
'Fluent and complex, uncompromising and occasionally shocking...'
Daily Mail 'Buwalda writes with ferocious dexterity... Bonita
Avenue is a family epic seething with learning and regret, the kind
with which commuting becomes a pleasure.' New Statesman 'A
brilliantly constructed story, with complex characters tested to
the limit' The Lady 'One of the first great European novels of the
21st century' Foyles Bookshop interview with author Highly, highly
recommended reading.Savidge Reads If I had to choose one first
novel, it would be the addictive bedlam of Bonita Avenue...
deserves to be a book, not just a debut, of the year' Independent
Books of the Year 'Dripping with sex and bursting with comedy... in
a plot of fiendish ingenuity. Buwalda has a cold eye for the
hilarity of human disaster that would make Evelyn Waugh blanch.
Read this book, love it, and try to ignore the twisting in your
gut.' Booktrust 'Great European art: the Dutchman Peter Buwalda
explodes the bourgeois family saga. The narrative pyrotechnics
alone are a tour de force.' Die Zeit Born in Brussels in 1971,
Peter Buwalda is a Dutch novelist, formerly a journalist, editor at
several publishers, and founder of the literary music magazine
Wah-Wah. Bonita Avenue is his debut novel. Published in 2010 to
critical acclaim, it was shortlisted for twelve prizes, going on to
win the Academica Prize, the Selexyz Debut Prize, the Tzum Prize,
the Anton Wachter Prize and the Leesclubboek van het jaar. It spent
two years on the bestseller lists, and has since been translated
into seven languages. Bonita Avenue is a suspenseful, incendiary
and unpredictable debut-of relationships torn apart by lies, and
minds destroyed by madness.
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