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The Secret
Three storylines run through The Secret, like themes in a symphony, sometimes merging, sometimes overlapping, and sometimes going in different directions: this is the story of Wanda Wierickhe, the story of her past and the story of Bouw, the man she left. Concert pianist Wanda Wiericke sees music as a way of escaping reality. It is her answer to questions about her place in the world. When forced to choose, she leaves her husband for it. But when her mother literally spits up the secret on her deathbed, Wanda is no longer able to withdraw into her music. A rheumatic disorder prevents her from playing: she does not touch a piano again until she has come to terms with her past. Enquist offers no easy solutions. The book's climax does not come with the revelation of the secret, but in the process of coming to terms with it. The Secret has been translated by Jeannette K. Ringold; it was originally published in 1997 as Het Geheim.
Counterpoint
Johann Sebastian Bach's music forms the backdrop to this stunning novel about motherhood and loss. Following the death of her daughter, a bereaved pianist immerses herself in Bach's Goldberg Variations. As the woman perfects the complex musical architecture of Bach's own study in grief, memories of her past unfold. A family - mother, father, son, and daughter - appear during various stages of their lives together in this story, which builds up to a crescendo of great emotional power. Beautifully written with a powerful insight into grief and mourning, Counterpoint - by Anna Enquist, one of Holland's best loved writers of quality fiction - has already sold 100,000 copies in the Netherlands alone and has been masterfully translated into many languages. Enquist is also the author of the widely-translated and bestselling novels The Secret and The Masterpiece.
Of Great Importance
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE is Nachoem Wijnberg's 16th volume of poetry. One of the most prominent living Dutch writers, Wijnberg's poetry is known for its deceptively plain language and his poems, according to the poet himself, can be read well by anyone who can read a newspaper. The poems in OF GREAT IMPORTANCE engage with statecraft, economics, and world history, lyricizing taxes and debts, stocks and flows, citizenship and labor contracts, notaries and accountants, factories and strikes, freedoms and fundamental rights, banks and railroads, property rights and codes of honor, sieges and treaties, gods and generals, how to make money and how to win elections, when to declare war and when to found...
The Royal Physician's Visit
An international sensation,The Royal Physician's Visitmagnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee -- court physician to mad young King Christian -- stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love, and the life of the mind, and it is superbly rendered here by one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers. A charismatic German doctor and brilliant intellectual, Struensee used his influence to introduce hundreds of reforms in Denmark in the 1760s. He had a tender and erotic affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde, who was unsatisfied by her unstable, childlike husband. Yet Struensee lacked the subtlety of a skilled politician and the cunning to choose enemies wisely; these flaws proved fatal, and would eventually lead to his tragic demise.
The Ice Carriers
What happens to parents when a teenager runs away from home? "The Ice Carriers revolves around the charged relationships between husband and wife, parent and child. Nico and Louise both have successful careers: Nico is a director of a psychiatric hospital, and Louise a teacher of classical languages, but their successes in life become meaningless when their only daughter runs away from home. Outwardly they continue as ever, but internally they are falling apart. Grasping for control, they throw themselves into separate projects; Nico plans far-reaching changes in the hospital, Louise designs a beautiful garden. Nico runs into serious objections to his plans and begins alienating his staff. Hostile conditions frustrate all of Louise's efforts; plants and vegetables failing to obtain a hold in the sandy soil. As the tension mounts, it becomes clear that only tragedy can result from the couple's refusal to face reality. The powerful emotions of loss and frustration are expressed with poignancy in this vivid novel.
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Complicity
In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn. By the author of The Wasp Factory.
The Masterpiece
Enquist's impassioned novel revolves around the artist Johan Steenkamer, the women who are drawn to him, and his troubled family relationships. The three days leading up to the opening of his grand exhibition are depicted with a dramatic sense of light and shade. Present events are shadowed by the past, and the section describing the loss of Steenkamer's daughter is an exploration of grief that will leave no reader unmoved.
The Secret
Three storylines run through The Secret, like themes in a symphony, sometimes merging, sometimes overlapping: this is the story of Wanda Wierickhe, her past, and the man she left. She sees music as a way of escaping reality, and she leaves her husband for it. When her mother spits up 'the secret' on her deathbed, Wanda is no longer able to withdraw into her music. She must come to terms with her past.
