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A journey of self-discovery finds Sam van Dijk searching for the answers behind his memory loss after the violent death of his parents and seeking grounding from two equally troubled siblings
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“All that’s left is the memory, and the memory’s not enough, the memory is one great longing.”
Twins Sam and Lisa and their older brother, Raph, are orphaned when their parents die in a car crash. Dispersed to various foster homes, they lose touch, re-uniting when the twins reach adulthood.
On the surface, all three have taken very different paths in life: Sam, sad and solitary, works as an archivist; Lisa is a painter, desperately unable to love her husband; and Raph, wild and resilient, always seeks the limit. What unite this strange, restless trio is their ever-present sense of what they lost when their parents died – a connectedness with their fellow men and the innocent, unconditional love of the family. Attempts to satiate their ‘great longing’ take all three on a journey back to the lost Paradise of childhood, where memory has become myth and hidden truths await discovery ...
A bestselling novel and a masterpiece of European fiction, 'The Great Longing' has taken Holland by storm. Critically acclaimed and winner of the prestigious AKO prize, it has already established itself as one of the country’s great works of literature.
“Tremendous evocative power. I’ve been walking around for days now, reading and re-reading passages and wondering what it is about 'The Great Longing' that makes me feel so restless.”
ANTHONY MERTENS, 'De Groene Amsterdammer'
“A painfully beautiful book.”
UTRECHTS NIEUWSBLAD
About the Author
Holland’s most famous author, Marcel Möring, was born in 1957 in Enschede, and he now lives in Rotterdam. He decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen.
After studying Dutch literature for two years and writing and directing plays, Möring published his aclaimed first novel, ‘Mendels Erfenis’ in 1990. His second, ‘Het Grote Verlangen’ (‘The Great Longing’) won the AKO Prize, the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize, and sold over 100,000 copies in the Netherlands alone.
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The Great Longing: A Novel [May 01, 1995] Moring, Marcel and Knecht, Stacey
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1995. Harper Collins. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060172436. Translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. 211 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Netherlands Dutch Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A visionary novel about desire, memory, and love, The Great Longing tells the poignant story of Sam van Dijk, a thirtyish young man who has lost all memory of his childhood up to the age of twelve, when his parents were killed in a mysterious car accident. Alienated and adrift in his life, working as a freelance archivist and living in a warehouse, Sam embarks on a journey of self-discovery through a contemporary landscape often dark and unexpectedly violent. He is alone in the world except for a twin sister, Lisa - the keeper of the family secrets, an artist whose marriage to a man she loves is in trouble - and his restless brother, Raph, a photographer. With these sibling ties as the only stable element in a narrative maelstrom, Sam gradually pieces together haunting shards of memory and retrieves the missing story of his life. In the process he discovers his own voice, and with it a longing for love and human connection. The setting of the novel is contemporary and urban - a Dutch city with its canals and wild nightlife; the cultural references - popular music, the assassination of JFK, the moon landing - are largely American. Marcel Moring's imaginative representation of how memory works is anchored in concrete detail and event, but his prose often soars. Rich in theme and style, with remarkably evocative imagery and impressive narrative control, The Great Longing introduces to this country a gifted writer whose work has already won impressive kudos abroad. inventory #21261. Seller Inventory # z21261
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. F. New York: Harper Collins [1995]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy. Fine in a fine jacket. A novel translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. The Great Longing (Dutch: Het Grote Verlangen) is a picaresque story about memory, loss, and desire, following narrator Sam van Dijk as he tries to piece together his past after his parents' death in a car crash when he was 12, leading to a reunion with his siblings and a search for love and connection. This novel the AKO Prize in the Netherlands. Fiction (sale). Seller Inventory # blow38