Bonita Avenue (Royal Trade Paperback) - Softcover

Peter Buwalda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908968176 ISBN 13: 9781908968173

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 a perfect family.

Until, that is, things start to fall apart. A cataclysmic explosion in a fireworks factory, the advent of Internet pornography, the reappearance of a discarded, dangerous son, and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan... and of Aaron's fragile psyche.

Bonita Avenue is a suspenseful, incendiary and unpredictable debut-of relationships torn apart by lies, and minds destroyed by madness.

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Review:

Great European art: the Dutchman Peter Buwalda explodes the bourgeois family saga: the narrative pyrotechnics alone are a tour de force (Die Zeit)

A literary sensation. Bonita Avenue is no less than a phenomenal masterpiece (tip berlin)

The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen (NRC Handelsblad)

Extraordinarily gripping. A dream debut (HP/De Tijd)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1908968176
• ISBN 13: 9781908968173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560