Sleepless Night
โ Scribed by Margriet de Moor
- Book ID
- 111096802
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 375 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781487005290
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this short, beautifully written novel, the grande dame of Dutch literature recounts a story of romance and death while performing a midnight baking ritual.
A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have consumed a story of romance and death. The narrator was widowed years before and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it?
Margriet de Moor tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity -- and the possibility of new beginnings.
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