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Gliding Flight
2017 Nominated

Gliding Flight

Anne-Gine Goemans

Translated from the original Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier
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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a spotters’ campground next to an airstrip. Gieles is longing for affection – from the mysterious dreadlocked girl he has met online, and also from his mother, who is always away on hopeless missions to save the world. With an ingenious but dangerous plan he tries to attract their attention.

 

Anne-Gine Goemans

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Anne-Gine
Goemans

Anne-Gine Goemans (1971) is a Dutch journalist and novelist.

Gliding Flight is Anne-Gine Goemans’s (the Netherlands) second novel. It was awarded the Dioraphte Literary Award and the German M. Pionier Award for new literary talent. It also appeared on the longlist for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize and film rights have been sold.

Photograph Credit: Merlijn Doomernik

Anne-Gine Goemans (1971) is a Dutch journalist and novelist.

Gliding Flight is Anne-Gine Goemans’s (the Netherlands) second novel. It was awarded the Dioraphte Literary Award and the German M. Pionier Award for new literary talent. It also appeared on the longlist for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize and film rights have been sold.

Photograph Credit: Merlijn Doomernik

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ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Nancy
Forest-Flier

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
12/02/2015
Country
The Netherlands
Original Language
Dutch
Author
Anne-Gine Goemans
Publisher
World Editions
Translator
Nancy Forest-Flier
Translation
Translated from the original Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier

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