by Arnon Grunberg · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789038893839
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«Huid en haar» is the novel by Arnon Grunberg, published by Nijgh & Van Ditmar in paperback (525 pages, in Dutch).
Roland Oberstein, a divorced economist, studies economic bubbles; his girlfriend Violet, a designer, is puzzled that he doesn't react to her infidelities. At a conference on the Holocaust in Frankfurt he meets Lea, biographer of Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz. A tale of desire, transgression and abuse of power in the academic world.
The novel was published in 2010; it was nominated for the AKO/ECI Literatuurprijs and the Libris Literatuurprijs in 2011.
For readers of contemporary Dutch literature and novels with moral dilemmas.
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'.
