In this spare, taut tale of confinement and escape, complicity and exploitation, Tommy Wieringa explores the value and fragility of human life. Translated by Sam Garrett.
Translated by Sam Garrett
Sam Garrett
Sam Garrett was born in Harrisburg, USA, in September 1956.
He has translated some 40 novels and works of non-fiction, winning prizes and appearing on the shortlists of some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Garret is also the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch–English translation. He lives in Amsterdam.
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