$17.99
A devastating picture of a dysfunctional bourgeois family
From atop their opulent private mountain estate, We and Me follows the aristocratic Vandersandens from 1980 to 2013, for whom neuroses, claustrophobia, scandal and rebellion run rife. At the heart of the family is Sarah, whose coming of age is both daringly and sensitively explored in de Coster’s skillful prose. In this spellbinding novel, which has been compared to the work of Franzen, Eggers and Eugenides, Saskia de Coster provides a uniquely European take on the Great American Novel. With the family unit and some of life’s most pressing questions at its center, the award-winning We and Me paints a poignant picture of modern-day family life.
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Pages | 416 |
Paperback ISBN | 978-1-64286-004-7 |
Ebook ISBN | 978-1-64286-024-5 |
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Publication date | October 2, 2018 |
Price | $17.99 |
Saskia de Coster (Belgium) is an author as well as a visual artist, playwright, and regular… Read more
“A family drama unfolds in a wealthy housing estate in Belgian author De Coster’s first novel to be translated into English. De Coster is a smart, witty writer with a real talent for storytelling.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The Great Flemish Novel is not dead. It has just been written by Saskia de Coster. We and Me is a novel that will haunt me for a long time. Excellent and unforgettable.” —HERMAN KOCH, author of The Dinner
“Saskia de Coster’s We and Me is a great, dark beauty, and simultaneously, a true original and a reminder of why that endangered species, the novel, remains essential: no other narrative form is so expansive, so complex, so human, and so true.” —MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, author of The Hours
“‘Great American Novels’ by writers such as Franzen, Dave Eggers and Jeffrey Eugenides remain a strong trend among UK fiction readers, and We and Me could quite easily be considered the European equivalent.” —BILL GODBER, Book of the Month
“For years the most stubborn, capricious and attractive pen of Belgium” —TOM LANOYE