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Confrontations

Confrontaties

Simone Atangana Bekono (born 1991)

Translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen

English editions

In English

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Salomé, sixteen, sits in a juvenile prison for a brutal assault on two boys from school who had long tormented her with racist insults, and she feels no remorse. Angry and let down, yet also clever and perceptive, she no longer knows who she was or who she might still be. Going over the past, she examines how one thing led to another, how memories fasten together and gather weight, and what it does to a person to keep swallowing anger while others scorn and shut her out, until something gives.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
223 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Netherlands
First published
2020 by Lebowski
Author's age
29 when first published
ISBN

9789048842438 (original)

9781800814752 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)

9781639730919 (Bloomsbury, United States)

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