by Arnon Grunberg · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789038827148
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«De asielzoeker» is the novel by Arnon Grunberg published by Nijgh & Van Ditmar in paperback (352 pages, in Dutch).
The protagonist, Christian Beck, translates instruction manuals and seeks new forms of happiness and love. After devoting himself to dismantling self-deceptions while his wife studied animals in the desert, he now lives for her. Together with his wife's new man, he tries to escape reality, but that flight ultimately reveals itself to be a cell.
Winner of the AKO Literatuurprijs and the F. Bordewijkprijs in 2004. The work originally appeared in 2003; this paperback edition is from 2005.
For readers of Dutch fiction and contemporary literary fiction.
Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been translated into 30 languages. In 2022 he received the PC Hooftprijs, a Dutch literary lifetime achievement award. His most acclaimed and successful novels are Blue Mondays and Tirza. The New York Times called the latter 'grimly comic and unflinching (…) while not always enjoyable, it is never less than enthralling'. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described him as 'the Dutch Philip Roth'.
