Sleepless Night
- Authors
- Margriet de Moor
- Publisher
- New Vessel Press
- ISBN
- 9781939931719
- Date
- 2019-05-07
- Size
- 1.43 MB
- Lang
- en
A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a story of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it? Margriet de Moor, the grande dame of Dutch literature, tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguityand the possibility of new beginnings.