by Arnon Grunberg · Nijgh & Van Ditmar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789038812151
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«Tirza» is the literary novel by Arnon Grunberg, published by Nijgh & Van Ditmar in paperback (432 pages, in Dutch).
Abandoned by his wife, fired and ruined by an investment fund, Jörgen Hofmeester is on the brink of the abyss; the only thing of value he has left is his daughter Tirza. After the graduation party, she leaves for Namibia with her new boyfriend. Hofmeester loses control of his life and will have to learn to let his daughter go.
Originally published in 2006, it won the Gouden Uil and the Libris Literatuurprijs in 2007. This 2022 edition is the 47th printing.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in parent-child relationships and in novels adapted to film.
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'.
