Lit in Translation

Coco Schrijber

Born 1961 · Netherlands

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    Libris 2026 · Shortlist

    Het gezoem van bijna alles

    Title translated by AI:“The Hum of Almost Everything”

    Coco Schrijber · 64 when first published

    Novel · 320 pages

    AI-generated summary:Cato Goudschenker, a one-eyed philosophy professor turned postwoman on a Mediterranean island, drinks too much and thinks about everything. Years after losing her two little boys in an accident, she starts writing letters to strangers who share her surname.