Anna Enquist

• Jul-2000
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 1997 Dutch Book of the Year. A concert pianist learns of a secret from her dying mother which cripples her life. Its resolution comes with an understanding of her family's past.

Three story lines run through THE SECRET, like themes i...

• Oct-2002
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THE INJURY brings together ten of Anna Enquist's best short stories. A dramatic rescue in the North Sea in the 1840's. A school soccer match as a symbol of struggle. A devastating injury. A figure in a painting by Vermeer.

For the many thousands o...

• Jan-2003
• / Literary
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One of the finest novelists and poets writing in the Netherlands today, Anna Enquist's first novel took the Dutch and German reading public by storm. The Masterpiece takes place during three days in the life of the painter Johan Steenkamer, and of th...

• Apr-2003
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What happens to parents when a teenager runs away from home? Outwardly everything seems to be all right, but it's an illusion. Their daughter has run away and the parents can't talk about it. They act as if it never happened...Nico and Louise both ha...

• Oct-2004
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• Apr-2009
• / Literary
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• Apr-2010
• / Literary
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Johann Sebastian Bach's music forms the backdrop to this stunning novel about motherhood and loss. Following the death of her daughter, a bereaved pianist immerses herself in Bach's Goldberg Variations. As the woman perfects the complex musical archi...

• Apr-2022
• / Literary
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An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook.After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to...