Bonita Avenue
By: Peter Buwalda ; translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder
Contributors: Reeder, Jonathan, translator
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781908968173
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Work titles: Bonita Avenue
Description: A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias. With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse, Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is, things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan...and of Aaron's fragile psyche.
Notes: Translated from the Dutch.

Novel.