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Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I will ca...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys? prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the...

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Hier zijn we dan. Mijn naam was Eileen Dunlop. Nu ken je me. Ik was destijds vierentwintig jaar oud en had een baan als secretaresse in een particuliere jeugdgevangenis voor tienerjongens, waar ik zevenenvijftig dollar per week voor kreeg. Laten we het Moorehead noemen. Delvin Moorehead was een verschrikkelijke huisbaas die ik jaren later had, en het voelt toepasselijk om zijn naam te gebruiken voor zo'n plek. Over een week zou ik weglopen van...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I will ca...

Salem, Massachusetts. Im Jahr des Herrn 1851. Der Seemann McGlue ist schwerer Trinker und sitzt im Gefängnis. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, vor Sansibar seinen besten Freund Johnson ermordet zu haben. Nur kann er sich an nichts erinnern. Was daran liegt, dass sein Schädel gespalten ist, seitdem er vor Monaten aus einem fahrenden Zug gesprungen ist, um nicht als blinder Passagier entdeckt zu werden. McGlue will sich auch an nichts erinnern, er will nur...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can't recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and scandalized. She's brilliant, this young woman."-David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by Th...

Un thriller espeluznante, hipnótico y divertido. Una primera novela poderosa, que cautiva y perturba al lector. La voz de Ottessa Moshfegh irrumpe con fuerza en las letras norteamericanas. Recuerda este nombre: Eileen.La Navidad ofrece muy poco a Eileen Dunlop, una chica modesta y perturbada atrapada entre su papel de cuidadora de un padre alcohólico y su empleo administrativo en Moorehead, un correccional de menores cargado de horrores cotidi...