Thirty days
By: Annelies Verbeke ; translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters
Contributors: Waters, Liz, translator
Publisher: World Editions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781642860054
Subjects: Belonging (Social psychology); Fiction
Other titles: 30 days
Work titles: Dertig dagen
Description: Meet Alphonse. Good, happy - but also funny, observant and imaginative, Alphonse is formerly a musician based in Brussels who has left the city with his girlfriend Kat to live near her parents in the buttoned-up rural district of Westhoek. It has open fields, wide, low skies, more World War I graves than almost anywhere in Europe - and one of the highest suicide rates in the western world. Alphonse starts a new life as a handyman - as he paints and decorates the interior of people's homes he gets to know their complex emotional lives...
Notes: Translation from the Dutch of: Dertig dagen.