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* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinkois an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

De Engelse schrijfster Julia Blackburn (1948- ) schetst het leven en het huwelijk van haar vader, de dichter Thomas Blackburn en haar moeder, de schilderes Rosalie de Meric.

Twee handen grepen Michelles nek van achteren beet en trokken haar uit de stoel. Even dacht ze dat het een grap was. Maar het was niet leuk. Michelle hapte naar adem. Het laatste wat ze hoorde was een klein geluidje, zoals het knappen van een kippenbotje. ‘Pak me dan als je kan.’ Met deze uitdagende, in lippenstift geschreven boodschap, daagt een moordenaar advocaat Jake Lassiter uit voor een macaber duel. Het lichaam van tv-presentatrice Michelle Diamond wordt in haar appartement gevonden. Uit haar computergegevens blijkt dat zij lid was van een high-tech computernetwerk, waarmee eenzame vrouwen met frivole pseudoniemen ’s nachts contact zoeken met onbekende mannen. Hun anonieme, seksueel beladen gesprekken leiden tot heel verrassende – soms dodelijke – ontmoetingen. Miami’s misdaadadvocaat Jake Lassiter, ex-football speler, ex-pro Deoadvocaat en nog heel wat meer ex-, krijgt de twijfelachtige eer deze gordiaanse knoop van computerseks, corruptie en afpersing te ontwarren. Maar al snel blijkt dat verscheidene mensen niet erg gelukkig zijn met zijn bemoeienissen…

Living in Washington is Tori Nunn, in Tokyo Honno Kansei and in Moscow Irina Ponomareva - three women who are linked by their growing proximity to the explosive conspiracy that could undo the international progress of the past two years. By the author of "The Ninja" and "White Ninja".

/ 9789024649198 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 14 x 22 cm / 300 .pp /