Rivers
By: Martin Michael Driessen ; translated by Jonathan Reeder
Contributors: Reeder, Jonathan, translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781503901261; 9781503901278
Subjects: Dutch fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water.
Notes: Previously published as Rivieren in Holland by Uitgeverij G.A. van Oorschot B.V. in 2016.

Translated from the Dutch.
Table of contents: title: Fleuve Sauvage; all comes to naught; title: Voyage to the moon; life is a dream; title: Pierre and Adele; he shall be purified by fire, water, air, and earth.