Lit in Translation

The Melting

Het smelt

Lize Spit (born 1988)

Translated by Kristen Gehrman

English editions

In English

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Eva was one of only three babies born in her year in Bovenmeer, a tiny village in Flanders; the other two were boys, and the trio grew up inseparable while things at home, with a mother who drank and a sister who starved herself, quietly fell apart. Adolescence changed the friendship. The boys came up with cruel games, and timid Eva had to choose between taking part and losing them. Thirteen years after one scorching summer when it all went badly wrong, she drives back to the village, an ice block thawing in her boot, with a plan of her own.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
480 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Belgium
First published
2016 by Das Mag
Author's age
28 when first published
ISBN

9789082410617 (original)

9781509838684 (Picador, United Kingdom)

9781509838707 (Picador, United Kingdom)

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