by Patrick McGrath · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023428978
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«Trauma» is the psychological novel by Patrick McGrath, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (234 pages, in Dutch).
Charlie Weir, a New York psychiatrist, flees his past: rivalry with his brother, an unreliable father, a suffocating mother, and a mistake that destroyed his marriage. Charlie's brother introduces him to Nora Chiara, and the relationship unearths a traumatic episode that forces him to confront his wounds. The novel explores memory, guilt, and mental fragility.
Translated from English by Piet Verhagen; edition published in 2008.
For readers of literary fiction and psychological novels, with an urban setting and a protagonist marked by his past.
Patrick McGrath is a British novelist, whose work has been categorised as gothic fiction.
