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LISTEN
LISTEN has sold 73.000 copies and is shortlisted for the LIBRIS prize (kind of the Dutch Booker).
Rights sold to PRH (English world), Norway and Germany.
In the factsheet you will find more praise and some quotes and the content. I admit that I find the Dutch cover misleading and therefore I am attaching the Norwegian cover which I think mirrors some of the content in a brilliant way.
It is a very brilliantly constructed novel. Whoever reads it is smitten by the intelligent structure and the speedy read. Literature at it’s best I would say.
A HALLUCINOGENIC SEARCH FOR IDENTITY, FRIENDSHIP AND GUILT
Rights sold to: Penguin Random House (English World), Arche
Verlag (Germany), Solum Bokvennen (Norway)
Filmrights sold
In 1989, at the age of twenty-one, Marie suddenly decides to leave the Netherlands. She finds work in Paris as an au pair and tries to build a new life for herself. The unfamiliar language, the thankless work in a complicated family and the impressive but unforgiving city offer her the anonymity she longs for.
Half a lifetime later, Marie’s story reaches her former photography teacher, Flo, the person who caused her to flee. The news is full of images from Paris of the terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015 on café terraces and at De Bataclan in which Flo turns out to have been involved. Flo, the teacher who moulded her, who taught her the difference between looking and seeing, between observing and telling a new story, who gave her the mental tools she needed to build herself up again. But Flo is also the teacher who grossly betrayed Marie’s trust and prompted her flight to Paris.
Best novel of 2023 among all books published (Het Parool);
Best novel by a Dutch author in 2023 (De Volkskrant); and
In Top 10 of best books in 2023 (NRC).
Longlist Libris Literature Prize 2024
“Ingenious new novel … superbly constructed.” – Trouw
*****“A thought-provoking novel … It’s a rare thing, a book that can be read simply as a ‘good read’ but with enough in it to make you think.” – de Volkskrant
****“A highly ingenious novel” – NRC
4.5 stars “A meticulously constructed and convincing story
that gets under your skin from the very first page.” – De Telegraaf
SACHA BRONWASSER is a writer, speaker, art historian and curator, in no particular order. She made her debut in October 2019 with the highly praised All They Say Is True. Her stories have also been published on the art platform Mister Motley.
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