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Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her
virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she
thought that things could only improve from there. But she was
wrong. It seems Sofie's been wrong about a lot of things. First,
she thought she was into men: wrong. Then she met Frida and thought
she was set for life: wrong again. Turns out, facing up to
everything she thought she knew about herself requires a lot of
trial and error. Will Sofie ever be able to untangle the impossible
knot of sex, love, loneliness, family relationships and grief that
constitutes a life? Does it even matter? The History of My
Sexuality is a frank, funny, exuberant journey through the highs
and lows of your 20s, and making peace withgetting it wrong again
and again...
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The Melting (Paperback)
Lize Spit; Translated by Kristen Gehrman
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'Challenging and disturbing, The Melting is an incredibly cruel
fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It
is we, the readers, that are left trembling.' - Leila Slimani,
author of Lullaby Eva can trace the route to Pim's farm with her
eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many
years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms.
There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three
children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up
alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her
loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with
adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality.
Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that
will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen
years after the summer she's tried for so long to forget, Eva is
returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but
this time she'll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her
car boot and she's ready to settle the score . . . Part thriller,
part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an extraordinary and
unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with adolescent
cruelty and the scars it leaves.
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Melting (Paperback)
Lize Spit; Translated by Kristen Gehrman
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Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though
she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among
the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their
grief.
Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988.
Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from
her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with
adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality.
Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that
will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen years
after the summer she’s tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to
her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she’ll be
prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she’s ready
to settle the score . . .
Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an
extraordinary and unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with
adolescent cruelty and the scars it leaves.
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I Will Live (Paperback)
Lale Gul; Translated by Kristen Gehrman
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R484
R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Büsra is living a double life. At home with her parents, life is an
endless argument - about what time she comes home, about what she
wears, and most of all, about how the rules apply only to her, while
her brother Halil enjoys free rein.
But out in the world, everything is different. Büsra is studying Dutch
literature at university, and she reads everything she can get her
hands on. She works at a restaurant, where she wears tight dresses and
serves alcohol. And her biggest secret of all: she has a boyfriend, and
she is passionately and sinfully in love with him.
Fiery, erotic and furious, and crackling with a relentless, mischievous
intellect, I Will Live is a rallying cry against patriarchal injustice
- and the story of a young woman finding her voice.
Eighteen-year-old Constance is not interested in marriage or in
being a "young lady." But for a young woman coming of age in the
early 1800s, that's just about all that's available to her. When
her parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her
age, she's powerless to resist. Stance couldn't possibly find her
newfound husband less appealing, but what can she do? Here's what:
Four months into the marriage, she can slip out of their bed in the
middle of the night, and she can put on his clothes. She can look
in the mirror and like what she sees. She can sneak out of the
house before dawn and visit the baker's scrawny son, who has just
been drafted into the army, and offer to take his place. Vive
l'Empereur! Hot on Stance's tail all the while is her younger
brother Pieter, determined to bring Stance back home to Ghent where
she belongs. (The battlefield is no place for a young lady, after
all.) Ironhead, or, Once A Young Lady is the riotous and powerful
story of a fierce renegade, and the silly men who try to bring her
down.
A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up
amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post–World War II
Europe. What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a
Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Münninghoff was only four when he
found this mortifying relic from his father’s recent past in his
attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his
father’s tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered
marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother
and son. In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his
parents’ complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and
disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of
twentieth-century Europe. The Münninghoffs were driven by greed,
rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between
the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted
Alexander’s life for the next seventy years. Only in reconciling
with them can this man find the courage to move forward as son and
heir to the startling legacy of a flawed yet grand tradition.
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