
2018 Longlist
La Superba
Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison
ABOUT
THE BOOK
La Superba is a Rabelaisian stylistic tour-de-force set in Genoa, the labyrinthine port city (nicknamed ‘La Superba’) where the author has lived for the last six years. Migration, legal and illegal, is the central theme of this autobiographical novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in a mysterious and exotic Old World city.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Pfeijffer’s autobiographical novel about migration, illegal and legal, in Genoa tells the story of Europe today. A wholly postmodern ode to the imagination that lovingly describes the labyrinthine and magical city that Pfeijffer calls home@Genoa, Italy, the city known as La Superba. The novel won the Libris Literatuur Prijs 2014.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
05/04/2016
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Translator
Michele Hutchison
Translation
Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison
Nominating Library