The Great Longing
ABOUT
THE BOOK
After a car crash in which their parents are killed, three children are separated until many years later. The novel tells of their rediscovery of each other, and in particular of the final discovery the narrator makes of an incident in the past which he had blocked out for many years. A novel about memory, loss of connectedness, and the family.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Stacey
Knecht
Stacey Knecht is the translator of Marcel Moring’s The Dream Room, The Great Longing, and In Babylon; Anke de Vries’s Bruises; Marga Minco’s The Glass Bridge; Hugo Claus’s Desire; and Lieve Joris’s Back to the Congo. She has been the recipient of several distinguished accolades, including the James S. Holmes Translation Award (1993) and the Vondel Prize (1996). She lives in the Netherlands.
Stacey Knecht is the translator of Marcel Moring’s The Dream Room, The Great Longing, and In Babylon; Anke de Vries’s Bruises; Marga Minco’s The Glass Bridge; Hugo Claus’s Desire; and Lieve Joris’s Back to the Congo. She has been the recipient of several distinguished accolades, including the James S. Holmes Translation Award (1993) and the Vondel Prize (1996). She lives in the Netherlands.