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Jacqueline, een jonge Liberiaanse vrouw, dwaalt rond op een paradijselijk Grieks eiland. Op het strand geeft ze voetmassages aan toeristen om na de zomer een opleiding in Amerika te kunnen betalen, of dat zegt ze toch. In werkelijkheid is ze eenzaam, dakloos en op de vlucht voor een gruwelijk verleden. Onder de hete Griekse zon wordt ze gekweld door de stemmen van haar familieleden en haar herinneringen aan Charles Taylor, de werkgever van haar vader. Hoe kan ze leren leven met wat ze weet?Alexander Maksik (1972) woont afwisselend in Parijs en Iowa, waar hij werkt aan de universiteit. Zijn romandebuut Liefde die niets weet werd uitgeroepen tot een van de tien beste Amerikaanse debuten van 2010.
268 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2013
About the author
Alexander Maksik
10 books146 followersAlexander Maksik is the author of four novels: You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Shelter in Place, named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle and The Long Corner, which will be published in 2022.
Maksik’s writing has appeared in many publications including Harper’s, The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New York Times Book Review, Condé Nast Traveler (where for several years he was a contributing editor) and The Atlantic, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and the Andrew Lytle Prize, as well as fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Along with French novelist Colombe Schneck, he is the co-artistic director of the Can Cab Literary Residence in Catalonia, Spain.
Maksik’s writing has appeared in many publications including Harper’s, The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New York Times Book Review, Condé Nast Traveler (where for several years he was a contributing editor) and The Atlantic, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and the Andrew Lytle Prize, as well as fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Along with French novelist Colombe Schneck, he is the co-artistic director of the Can Cab Literary Residence in Catalonia, Spain.
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