The Book Club

by Maxim Februari, Paul Vincent (Translator)

Overview

Thirty-year-old Theresa Pellikaan is typical of the wealthy middle class - she is married to a successful man and lives in an apparently sleepy, yet powerful, rich village. She works in a gallery.

When her former schoolmate Ruth Ackermann, brought up in the same village, makes waves with an international bestseller, no one mentions her achievement, even in the book club. Theresa begins to wonder why. It can't only be because it's not 'literature'.

It emerges there is a dark secret in the village. Every member of the book club has a reason to keep quiet and Ruth Ackerman's novel threatens to unravel the past, with devastating results. Unable to cope with the silence, Theresa investigates, no matter the consequences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849169219
Publisher:	Quercus Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Maxim Februari studied Art History, Philosophy and Law. The Book Club is his second novel. He has also published several collections of essays.

Paul Vincent has translated a wide variety of Dutch-language authors, including Louis Couperus, Willem Elsschot and Harry Mulisch.

Maxim Februari studied Art History, Philosophy and Law. He was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the clash of economics and ethics.The Literary Circle is her second novel. He has also published several collections of essays and has been writing a Saturday column for a Dutch newspaper since 1999.
Paul Vincent taught Dutch at London University from 1967 to 1989 and since then has translated a wide variety of Dutch-language authors, including Louis Couperus, Willem Elsschot and Harry Mulisch.