by Tommy Wieringa · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023464242
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«Joe Speedboot» is the novel by Tommy Wieringa, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (315 pages, in Dutch).
Fransje Hermans, a young man in a wheelchair and unable to speak after an accident, is fascinated by Joe Speedboot, a newcomer who has invented his own name and becomes an aircraft builder and philosopher of movement. Their friendship and the arrival of other characters transform the village into a story about identity and the search for meaning.
The novel was originally published in 2005 and was awarded the F. Bordewijkprijs in 2006; this edition is from 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction and coming-of-age novels, especially those interested in Dutch narrative.
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.
