In Babylon

Literature & Fiction

Möring, Marcel

Contemporary

Flamingo

Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands.
Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a winter blizzard with his young niece, Nina, in the deserted house of his late Uncle Herman. As they wait for the weather to improve, Nathan tells Nina the story of their forefathers – a family of clockmakers who came to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe and then emigrated to America before WWII. An extraordinary and rich family history emerges.
An epic family saga, a Gothic novel gone haywire, a very human story and a chronicle of the twentieth century, In Babylon is already set to be a classic European novel. A piece of very solid, traditional storytelling combined with a very funny, sensual magical realism. A brilliant merging of the lightness of popular American writing and the depth of European literature.

Humor & Satire

A magnificently ambitious and enthralling novel that confirms Moring’s place as one of the most significant European novelists now at work.
At the end of the Second World War, Jacob Noah emerges from the hole in the ground where he has been hiding for the past three years, and cycles madly back to his home town to find that his parents and brother have perished at the hands of the Nazis. Setting himself up as a shoemaker in the Dutch town of Assen, Noah patiently expands his business until he has become the most influential entrepreneur in the city.
But however wealthy he becomes, nothing can console him for the loss of his family and the tragedy of history.
In June 1980, on the eve of Assen's annual TT races, a despairing Noah sets off on a journey into the depths of his soul. Guided by a shabby, supernatural pedlar calling himself the 'Jew of Assen', he descends into the smoky heart of the town, a man-made hell modelled on Dis, the city in Dante's Inferno. In a rich and varied explosion of styles, fantasy and philosophical speculations, Marcel Möring leads us on a voyage through the dark heart of the twentieth century, and through a vivid exploration of loss and guilt.

In A Dark Wood

Literary

Fourth Estate

The Dream Room

London: Flamingo

A journey of self-discovery finds Sam van Dijk searching for the answers behind his memory loss after the violent death of his parents and seeking grounding from two equally troubled siblings

The Great Longing: A Novel

Harpercollins

When he was 12, Sam van Dijk's parents were killed in a mysterious car accident, and since then he has lost all memory of his childhood. Now in his 30s, alienated from society and adrift in life, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery -- one that takes him through the gritty, and sometimes violent landscape of a Dutch city and the tantalizing, ethereal fabric of his memory. With his restless brother and twin sister as his only links to the world of his childhood, he gradually pieces together the haunting shards of his past and retrieves the missing story of his life. In the course of a moving, emotional voyage, he solves a mystery and discovers his own voice -- and with it, a longing for love and human connection. 
 In a masterful translation that captures the subtle voice, wry humor, visionary power and hypnotic readability of the original, The Great Longing is a rich, evocative novel that introduces America to a gifted writer whose work has already won impressive kudos abroad.

The Great Longing: Novel, A

Genre Fiction

Harper-perennial

Set in the 1960's, The Dream Room is the story of a family's dissolution as witnessed through the eyes of twelve-year-old David. An only child fascinated by the culinary arts, he is content to spend time with his mother and father, an unemployed ex-World War II pilot. One rainy summer, the family works together building model airplanes for a toy shop -- their only means of survival. Times are difficult, but David has never felt so secure. But his peace is soon shattered by an old family friend, whose appearance will destroy everything David holds most dear.Intelligent and philosophical, The Dream Room is an entrancing family history, love story, and fairy tale to be savored.

Set in the 1960s, The Dream Room is the story of a family's dissolution, as witnessed through the eyes of twelve-year-old David. An only child, he is fascinated by the culinary arts -- making the family's dinner nightly and reading cookbooks as if they were novels and novels as if they were cookbooks -- content to simply spend time with his mother and father, a pilot during World War II who is now an unemployed engineer. One long, rainy summer, they work together building model airplanes for the toy shop beneath their apartment to support themselves -- their only means of survival. But although times are difficult, David is happy, for his family has never been so close and life has never felt so secure. But his peace is shattered by an old family friend, whose appearance will destroy everything David holds most dear and irrevocably alter the course of his life.
Intelligent and philosophical, The Dream Room is at once an entrancing family history, love story, and fairy tale that confirms Marcel Möring's reputation as one of the great literary talents of his generation.

United States

William Morrow

“Demanding and magnificent.” — London Times 
An enormously compelling and ambitious novel from the author of The Dream Room, The Great Longing, and In Babylon, In a Dark Wood explores the guilt, fear, and loss suffered by Europeans, and in particular the Jewish people, during and after the Holocaust. Drawing on epic sources including Dante’s Inferno, Greek mythology, Arthurian romance, Homer, and James Joyce, In a Dark Wood cements Marcel Möring’s reputation as one of the most significant and enthralling novelists of contemporary European fiction.

In a Dark Wood: A Novel

Harper

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In Babylon

In Babylon

In A Dark Wood

The Dream Room

The Dream Room

The Great Longing: A Novel

The Great Longing: Novel, A

The Dream Room

The Dream Room

In a Dark Wood: A Novel