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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.
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Moring's novels--In Babylon is the third--are bestsellers in his native Holland and it's to be hoped that British audiences will snap up his work with equal eagerness. In Babylon is family history, love story, ghost story and fairytale all rolled into one. In essence-but this is a book whose essence is elusive--it is the story of Nathan Hollander, who has inherited a hunting lodge from his recently-deceased uncle Herman on the condition that he, Nathan, produces a biography of Herman, a world-famous sociologist.
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Nathan and his beautiful niece Nina are trapped in the lodge during the worst blizzard the East Netherlands has ever seen: the perfect opportunity for them to explore the convoluted history of this family of Jewish clockmakers who left Poland in the 17th century and ended up, during the Second World War, at the heart of the Manhattan Project. Along the way, Nathan gets advice from Chaim and Magnus, a pair of ironical ancestors whose death 300 years ago hasn't stopped them from kibitzing, and discovers that his feelings for Nina are more than just familial. In Babylon is that rarest of things: a truly intelligent, philosophical novel with a terrific story at its heart. --Erica Wagner
From the Dutch reviews:
‘Mysterious, magical and full of suspense, In Babylon is one of the most singular reading experiences I have ever had.’
NRC
‘There’s no other way to put it: In Babylon is rich and splendid, a pearl among books.’
Volkskraant
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