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TOOTH HUNTER
Novel – 432 pp – pub date May 2025
Auke Hulst is one of Ambo|Anthos’ most important and surely also one of our most interesting authors. He has published several books already; his latest one, Tooth Hunter, was published a little over a month ago. So far we sold over 6.000 copies. We already had a lot of beautiful reviews. I hope that this novel will become his international breakthrough.
Tooth Hunter [Tandenjager] is a dark novel, it’s rough, it’s brutal, bloody, at times it reeks. It is rich in language and imagery. A time and a place come to life that you didn’t think you knew. But yet, there it is. We have a sample translation made by the extraordinary David Colmer.
Vos Jacobsz is a tooth hunter. He scours the battlefields of Napoleonic Europe in search of young fallen soldiers with intact teeth, from which dentists craft dentures for wealthy clients. When Vos finds the most beautiful set of teeth, he has ever laid eyes on at Quatre-Bras, he decides to have them transplanted into his own mouth in London. These remarkable teeth help him move up into higher social circles, where he sets his sights on a marchioness with an equally fine set of teeth. During a grim year without a summer, she introduces him to a hidden world of decadence and exploitation. But how much blood on your hands – and your teeth – can you justify to yourself?
Tooth Hunter is an unconventional historical novel in which gothic horror, politics, love and eroticism converge in a blood-curdling and highly relevant story about class differences, plundering, exploitation and the price of ambition. A literary tour de force by one of the best stylists in the Dutch language.
The Press:
***** ‘Can a novel be nauseating in a positive sense? Certainly!’ […] What a wonderful stench and chilling horror rises from Tooth Hunter! […] With Tooth Hunter, he once again succeeds in adding something extraordinary and surprising to his already remarkably versatile oeuvre. […] Tooth Hunter is both an excellent historical novel and a chilling Gothic horror story. […] It is a compelling story, but it is the style in particular – lavish, but never clumsy – that makes a big impression. […] Hulst conjures up all kinds of images and plays with all kinds of literary references.’ – NRC
‘He is able to incorporate such a seemingly implausible layer into the story in a convincing manner. This is due to his exceptional style.’ – Het Parool
‘I kept my hand over my mouth the whole time while reading that passage, as if I wanted to protect my own teeth. That should be taken as a compliment to the writer; it means that Auke Hulst had me completely in his grip. […] Hulst flirts with all the novel genres of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Laurence Stern, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Multatuli, Herman Melville,’ – Trouw Tijdgeest
‘But Tooth Hunter is an impressive, rich novel, a scandalously opulent buffet of piled-up organ meat and southern fruits.’ – De Groene Amsterdammer
‘It is a historical novel with highly topical themes. Only one person could pull something like this off, and with such stylistic excellence.’ – Kunststof
‘Auke Hulst tells his ambitious story with a mix of well-fed and teeth-gnashing prose.’ – Volkskrant
‘It is written in a very special way. […] You are constantly ‘looking’ at beautifully written images. […] Definitely worth reading.’ – Nieuwsweekend
‘It should be noted that this is a novel that is difficult to put down. As a reader, you are propelled forward by stunningly beautiful sentences, scenes and images. Tooth Hunter is written with such precision and attention to detail that you are inclined to believe that the author is a very good dentist who has lost his way.’ – TP Tandartsenpraktijk
Auke Hulst is a writer and musician. His made his breakthrough in 2012 with the autobiographical novel Children of the Savage Land [50,000 copies sold, rights sold to Italy (Carbonio) and Turkey (Alef)]. Hulst subsequently wrote several award-winning novels and travel books. In 2018, he won the Bob den Uyl Prize for Motel Songs, and his novel, The Mitsukoshi Consolation Baby Company (2022), was shortlisted for both the Libris Literature Prize and the Boekenbon Literature Prize.
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