- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2023 · Finalist · for the translation by Lucy Scott
On a Woman's Madness
Over de gekte van een vrouw
Astrid Roemer (born 1947)
Translated by Lucy Scott
English editions
In EnglishOn a Woman's Madness
Two Lines Press · United States · 2023 · Hardcover
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Noenka is eighteen when she leaves home to teach and lands in a restless, hostile society. She walks out on her brutal husband Louis after nine days, her later lovers disappoint her, and rumours put her at risk. When cancer strikes her mother and the family home crumbles, she must return to the village of her birth.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 257 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Suriname
- First published
- 1982 by In de Knipscheer
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
9789062651023 (original)
9781949641431 (Two Lines Press, United States)