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Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize. Two venturesome
women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A
wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in
Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would
not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their
guide and saviour, they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a
tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an even tighter one:
and from this far darker space there is no exit. Their tale of
confinement and escape is as old as the landscapes and cultures so
vividly depicted in this story of where Europe and Africa come
closest to meeting, even if they never quite touch.
From internationally best-selling author Tommy Wieringa, comes a
rich and engrossing novel about a man on an odyssey in search of
answers about his dysfunctional artistic family and the legacy they
left behind. When Ludwig Unger returned to his hometown after a
decade, he arrived with a plastic bag filled with his mother's
ashes and little else. He was there to make amends with his lonely
past, to say goodbye to the familial ghosts that still haunted him.
Raised in a cliff-top cottage on the coast of England, Ludwig's
mother tried to create a normal life for her son after her husband
one day left them to pursue his art. A mama's boy, Ludwig grew up
in her shadow, developing an obsession with her and her sensual
allure. But when he discovered the secret of her past as the
world-famous porn star "Eve LaSage" and her plans for a comeback,
Ludwig's world spun out of control. He soon found himself homeless,
shouldering the shame of his mother's career, and embarking on a
journey that took him around the world. Little Caesar is a story of
beauty and decay, of filial loyalty and parental betrayal, and of
the importance of self-sacrifice.
'In a certain sense, nothing had changed - two men in a house and a
half-century passing without a ripple - but seen with the light
from a different angle, none of it had remained the same.' What is
the purpose of a man? Living in a disused farmhouse with his
elderly father, Paul Kruzen is not sure he knows anymore. The mill
his grandfather toiled in is closed, the glory of the Great Wars is
long past, and it has been many years since his mother escaped in
the arms of a Russian pilot, never once looking back. What do they
have to look forward to now? Saint Rita, the patron saint of lost
causes, watches over Paul and his best friend Horseradish Hedwig,
two misfits at odds with the modern world, while Paul takes comfort
in his own Blessed Rita, a prostitute from Quezon. But even she
cannot protect them from the tragedy that is about to unfold. In
this darkly funny novel about life on the margins of society, Dutch
sensation Tommy Wieringa asks what happens to those left behind.
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