Craving
By: Esther Gerritsen ; translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison
Contributors: Hutchison, Michele, translator
Edition: [USA edition].
Publisher: World Editions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781642860023
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Divorced parents; Emotional problems; Cancer
Other titles: Thirst
Work titles: Dorst
Description: "Elisabeth and her adult daughter Coco happen upon each other in the city, on opposite sides of the street. The accidental nature of their meeting is indicative of their estrangement. Elisabeth divorced Coco's father long ago, and contact with her daughter has been scant ever since. She takes the opportunity to share some bad news; she has terminal cancer and not long to live...We follow the lives of mother and daughter by turns. Both are conscious of futility and mortality, and they do not become close even after Coco decides to move in with her mother...Elisabeth finds it increasingly hard to lie to her daughter to keep up appearances, and her daughter reconciles herself to her fate: Sometimes you start doing something even when you know it will never be enough."--Dutch Foundations for Literature website.
Notes: First published as Dorst in the Netherlands in 2012 by De Geus BV; published in the UK in 2015 by World Editions.

Original language of text is Dutch.