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A European take on the tradition “The Great American Novel’ Has been described as a literary ‘desperate housewives’ and the European answer to Jonathan Franzen. We and Me follows a bourgeois Belgian family over several decades, portraiting how loneliness can thread through even the most intimate of our relationships Lonely in their togetherness, the father is immersed in his high-paying career, the mother spends hours combing her rugs, and their daughter Sarah rebels against her parents and isolation on top of a Belgian mountain Compared to the works of Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and Jeffrey Eugenides, We and Me is a novel that will haunt me for a long time. Excellent and unforgettable.’—Herman Koch, author of The Dinner Saskia de Coster is on of the greatest Belgian writers of our time and her work has been translated into ten languages. We and Me won the Cutting Edge Award and the Opzij Literature Prize. Novel was embraced by independent booksellers in UK and received many “book of the month” staff picks Sold over 40,000 copies in the Netherlands and Belgium alone

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