The Book Club
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Thirty-year-old Theresa Pellikaan is typical of the wealthy middle classes – with her respectable background, successful husband and house in an apparently sleepy, yet powerful, rich village. She works in a gallery, also typical of her type. When her former schoolmate Ruth Ackermann, brought up in the same village, makes waves with an international bestseller, but none of the villagers ever mention her achievement, not even the literary circle of Theresa’s father, famous civil rights scholar Randolf Pellikaan, Theresa begins to wonder why. It can’t only be because it’s not ‘literature’. It emerges that 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 bring the past into the present, with devastating results. Unable to cope with the silence, Theresa investigates, no matter the consequences. (From Publisher)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Paul
Vincent
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Chosen by our readers. With honed wit and masterly dialogue, the author rages against that most endearing of Dutch characteristics – the Protestant work ethic – when it is manipulated and abused by hypocritical wheelers and dealers.