Meesterstuk anna enquist biography
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Anna Enquists The Homecoming newly published in English on Amazon Crossing
Anna Enquists The Homecoming newly published in English on Amazon Crossing Aril 1,
Celebrated Dutch author Anna Enquists best-selling novel about the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook is newly translated into English by Eileen Stevens, and published by Amazon Crossing.
The Homecoming is 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 spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself―in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to
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Elegiac elegance
A kontur of celebrated Dutch writer Anna Enquist.
By BARRY DAVIS•
Anna Enquist
Biography
Anna Enquist is the pseudonym of Dutch writer Christa Widlund-Broer. She is a psychoanalyst and a pianist. In , Enquist published her first poems in Maatstaaf magazine. Three years later her debut collection Soldatenliederen (The Songs of Soldiers) was published by De Arbeiderspers. Since then Enquist has published a further 6 collections of poetry: Jachtscènes (Hunting Scenes; ), Een nieuw afscheid (A New Goodbye; ), De tweede helft (The Second Half; ), Hier was vuur (Here Was Fire; ), De tussentijd (The Interval; ) and Nieuws van nergens (News from Nowhere; ).
Enquist cemented her status as a writer with her first novel, Het meesterstuk (The Masterpiece; ). In Enquist wrote De ijsdragers (The Ice Carriers), which received wide circulation as part of the annual Dutch Book Week, where as per tradition it was given away for free with all book purchases in the Netherlands. Las