by Tommy Wieringa · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023458753
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«De heilige Rita» is the literary novel by Tommy Wieringa, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (285 pages, in Dutch).
Paul Krüzen lives with his father in an abandoned Saxon farmstead near a border village. After a Russian pilot's crash, the place fills with outsiders and a conflict in a brothel disrupts their seclusion. A novel about the father-son relationship, the changing rural world, and hope under the protection of Saint Rita, patroness of impossible cases.
Originally published on 24 October 2017, it won the Bookspot Literatuurprijs 2018 and was nominated for the Libris Literatuurprijs and the Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in stories about family bonds and social changes in rural areas.
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.
