The Dutch House - Patchett, Ann
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERAn unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John Boyne"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I…mehr

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERAn unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John Boyne"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer."Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings.Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.
Autorenporträt
Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician's Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.
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A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I've read in years Rosamund Lupton
"The Dutch House has the richness, allusiveness, and emotional heft of the best fiction." - Boston Globe

"As always, the author draws us close to her protagonists swiftly and gracefully." - Wall Street Journal

"Patchett's prose is confident, unfussy and unadorned." - New York Times

"A big-hearted, capacious novel..." - Chapter 16

"The Dutch House is unusual, thoughtful and oddly exciting, as well-told domestic dramas can be." - Columbus Dispatch

"Patchett's storytelling abilities shine in this gratifying novel." - Associated Press

"As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." - The Guardian

"For Patchett fans who have been waiting for years, it's a worthwhile read." - Evening Standard (London)

"Ann Patchett spins a dark, compelling fairy tale in The Dutch House." - Entertainment Weekly

"The Dutch House confirms what we've always known: Ann Patchett doesn't write a bad book." - BookPage

"This finely textured novel is made up of many such small, intimate moments, yet the effect is sweeping, grand, and lavish-and all deeply moving." - New York Journal of Books

"This is a serious and poignant story, but also a delightfully funny one." - Washington Independent Review of Books

"This richly furnished novel gives brilliantly clear views into the lives it contains." - Kirkus Reviews(starred review)

"You won't want to put down this engrossing, warmhearted book even after you've read the last page." - NPR

"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction." - New York Times Book Review

"Patchett is a master storyteller." - O, the Oprah Magazine

"Patchett's splendid novel is a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire, keep, lose or give away, and what they leave behind." - Publishers Weekly(starred review)

"A lavishly gifted writer." - Los Angeles Times

"Patchett writes enviable prose-fluid, simple, direct, clear, and fearless." - Esquire

"Enchanting." - PEOPLE Magazine, Best Books of Fall 2019

"Patchett is at her subtle yet shining finest in this gloriously incisive, often droll, quietly suspenseful drama of family, ambition, and home. . . . With echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and in sync with Alice McDermott, Patchett gracefully choreographs surprising revelations and reunions as her characters struggle with the need to be one's true self." - Booklist

"The Dutch House is beautifully written and often tender." - The Spectator

"A great novelist is on top form with this tale of lost family home." - The Times (London)

"Subtle mystery, psychological page-turner, Patchett's latest is a thriller." - Washington Post

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The Dutch House is a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives