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The
2003 Award
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Love's Death by
Oscar van den Boogaard
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374185859 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Love's
Death is about the search for an ideal family. At the novel's centre
is the death of a child and the devastating and destructive effect of this
event on parents, friends and lovers. In the summer on 1973, Oda and Paul Klein's eight-year-old daughter, Vera, drowns in the neighbour's pool. Paul flees his grief by taking a military posting in Suriname. Seven years later, when he returns, a mysterious fire burns down the neighbour's house, and a young girl appears out of the flames. She is fifteen, as Vera would now have been. Paul and Oda agree to take her in temporarily - feeling as if they have been given another chance to form a family. Finally Paul's friend Emil reveals the central role he has played in the Klein's lives. At once poetic and gripping, Love's Death never loosens its hold on the reader, from the first painful scene by the pool to the final revelation of the deception at the heart of the Klein's marriage. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Oscar van den Boogaard was born in 1964 and in one of The Netherlands' foremost writers. Love's Death is his fifth novel and the first to be translated into English. He lives in Brussels, Belgium. |
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