by Arnon Grunberg · Singel Uitgeverijen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789038827063
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«De asielzoeker» is the novel by Arnon Grunberg, published by Singel Uitgeverijen in paperback (352 pages, in Dutch).
Christian Beck, a translator of instruction manuals, and his wife are going through a crisis. When she marries an asylum seeker who moves in with them, a strange three-way cohabitation begins. The novel delves into identity, immigration, and human relationships in extreme situations.
The novel was published in 2003 and won the AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs and the F. Bordewijkprijs in 2004.
For readers with a command of Dutch interested in contemporary literary fiction.
Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been translated into 30 languages. In 2022 he received the PC Hooftprijs, a Dutch literary lifetime achievement award. His most acclaimed and successful novels are Blue Mondays and Tirza. The New York Times called the latter 'grimly comic and unflinching (…) while not always enjoyable, it is never less than enthralling'. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described him as 'the Dutch Philip Roth'.
