Falling Is Like Flying

Informationen zum Autor MANON UPHOFF was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for numerous prizes. Falling is Like Flying has been a literary phenomenon in the Netherlands, making 32 'Best of 2019' lists, being shortlisted for 4 awards and winning the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Prize. It is the first of Manon's books to be translated into English. Twitter: @manonuphoff Instagram: @uphoffmanon www.manonuphoff.com SAM GARRETT has translated some 50 novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors' Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation. Klappentext The darkly beautiful autobiographical story of a childhood spent in the shadow of a domineering, abusive father. Zusammenfassung The darkly beautiful autobiographical story of a childhood spent in the shadow of a domineering, abusive father.

Product details

• Authors: Manon Uphoff
• Assisted by: Sam Garrett (Translation), Garrett Sam (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781782277064
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-706-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Memoirs, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs