by Tommy Wieringa · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023465140
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«Caesarion» is the novel by Tommy Wieringa, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (265 pages, in Dutch).
Set on the coast of East Anglia, the novel follows Ludwig Unger, son of two celebrities and a pianist in hotels, who tells his life story to a woman over three nights while the sea erodes the cliff. The work addresses beauty and decay, filial loyalty, parental infidelity, and personal sacrifice.
Originally published in 2007, this edition is from 2011. The novel was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2013.
Tommy Wieringa is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboot (2005), and the Libris Prize in 2013 for the novel Dit zijn de namen (2012). In 2018 he won the Bookspot Literatuurprijs for his novel De heilige Rita. His novel The Death of Murat Idrissi, translated by Sam Garrett from Dutch, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019.
