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The Dutch House is a 2019 novel by Ann Patchett. It was published by Harper on September 24, 2019. It tells the story of a brother and sister, Danny and Maeve Conroy, who grow up in a mansion known as the Dutch House, and their lives over five decades. [2] The novel was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3]
Dutch house, a style of the electro house music genre that originated in the Netherlands; Dutch House (New Castle, Delaware), a late-17th-century house in New Castle, Delaware; Dutch Houses, Chester, a building in Chester, England
Yael Van der Wouden was born in 1987 [1] Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Israeli mother and a Dutch father, and grew up in the Netherlands. [2] She started ballet classes at the age of three, and competed in her school's talent show aged ten, with a dance interpreting a flame.
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Willem Frederik Hermans (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləɱ ˈfreːdərɪk ˈɦɛrmɑns]; 1 September 1921 – 27 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism.
The book is a memoir, covering Shorto's own family history and his ancestors involvement in the American Mafia in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. [ 6 ] In 2022, Shorto founded, and became Director of, the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society, with a mission to promote awareness of New York's Dutch origins.
A second book of poetry followed in 2019 and a second novel, Mijn lieve gunsteling, in 2020. [14] Rijneveld served on the editorial team of de Revisor, a Dutch literary periodical, in 2016. [15] In 2021, Rijneveld was selected by American poet Amanda Gorman to translate her work into Dutch. Rijneveld initially accepted the commission, but later ...
The New York Times gave a mediocre review calling the novel both "a brave book, and if it does not altogether succeed, [and an] attempt nonetheless [that] merits praise." [1] The review notes that the novel is a "dramatic departure" from O'Brien's typical novels, and in that context of experiment "we see her audacity fail and her elegant prose run badly out of control."