Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Otto de Kat is the pen name of the founder of Dutch non-fiction publishing house Balans, Jan Guert Gaarlandt, also a poet, novelist and critic. His prize-winning novels have been widely published in Europe, and Man on the Move was the winner of the Netherlands' Halewijn Literature Prize. LAURA WATKINSON lived in England, Scotland, Italy and Germany, before settling in the Netherlands in 2003. Her previous translations include Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Berlin, Letters to Poseidon and Venice, Peter Terrin's Post Mortem, Otto de Kat's The Longest Night and Freetown, and Tonke Dragt's The Letter for the King.A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting.
- John Harding, Daily Mail
De Kat mixes great moral issues with historical events. This is his literary art. <i>The Longest Night</i> is melancholic and brilliantly written.
- Marianne Mielke, Radio Berlin.
Otto de Kat has created a small masterpiece.
Nürnberger Zeitung.
The De Kat Express takes you on a journey without borders.
NRC Handelsblad.
An exceedingly beautiful novel that you read breathless till the end.
E.O. Vision.
These are novels of subtle emotional distance . . . as physical as a blow to the heart
- Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
One of the Netherlands' most compelling literary voices
Irish Examiner
[A] powerful novel, exploring the impact of war through the lives of its memorable characters.
The Lady