The Great Longing (First Edition)
Moring, Marcel
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Add to basketSold by Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - As new
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Add to basketNew 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).
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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.”
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