On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The morning of the storm, Armanda asks her sister, Lidy, to take her place on a visit to her godchild in the town of Zierikzee. In turn, Armanda will care for Lidy's two-year-old daughter and accompany Lidy’s husband to a party. The sisters, both of them young and beautiful, look so alike that no one may even notice. But what Armanda can’t know is that her little comedy is a provocation to fate: Lidy is headed for the center of the deadly storm. Margriet de Moor interweaves the stories of these two sisters, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief-strewn aftermath. While Lidy struggles to survive, surrounded by people she barely knows, Armanda must master the future, trying to live out the life of her missing sister as if it were her own. A brilliant meshing of history and imagination, The Storm is a powerfully dramatic and psychologically gripping novel from one of Europe’s most compelling writers.

The Storm: A novel

Literature & Fiction

De Moor, Margriet

Literary

KNOPF

Tells a story of perception, love and mortality, told with bewitching simplicity. Divided into four parts the work involves a subtle play on time and perspective.

First Grey, Then White, Then Blue

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

The heartaches, loves, fortunes and losses of a wandering gypsy whose family is torn apart by the cruelty of post-WWII Europe

Duke of Egypt

Contemporary

Picador

Raising horses on her father's farm, young Lucie falls in love at first sight with handsome gypsy wanderer Joseph, and their subsequent marriage is marked by three children and Joseph's annual visit to his family, which is scattered throughout Europe. Reprint.

Duke of Egypt: A Novel

Arcade Publishing

For one entire opera season, Carlotta, a Neapolitan duchess, sits in her candle-lit box captive to her passion for Gasparo, the tantalizing castrato with whom she has been smitten since their childhood together in a small Italian village. De Moor recreates the world of Italian music and Naples' fashionable aristocracy with a sensuality that takes the breath away. First published in Holland, and since translated into thirteen languages, this unusual tale of song and sensuality has seduced readers around the world. A novel of sweeping gestures with delicate grace notes, The Virtuoso is a story of an exceptional place and and exceptional passion.

The Virtuoso

History

Europe

Abrams Press

MARGRIET DE MOOR'S prizewinning first novel, First Gray, Then White, Then Blue, is at once a powerful mystery about why a husband would murder his wife, and a penetrating investigation of the overwhelming force of obsessive love. Told in various points of view, moving from past to present to future, First Gray, Then White, Then Blue is a story of perception, love, and mortality--told with a bewitching power.

First Gray, Then White, Then Blue

Overlook Books

Dutch novelist de Moor traces narrative arabesques around the terrible romantic jealousy suffered by a blind music critic in this spare, delicate novel.

The Kreutzer Sonata: A Novel (Kreutzersonate)

Flame-haired Lucie raises horses on her father’s farm. One summer day, she meets a dark, handsome stranger named Joseph, and it is love at first sight. But their union is as improbable as their love is deep. For Joseph is a wanderer, a full-blooded gypsy for whom all of Europe is a stomping ground. Despite their cultural differences, they marry, have three children, and lead a normal life—with one exception: each spring, Joseph takes to the road to return to his other family, the gypsies, scattered to the four corners of Europe. More than a moving love story, Duke of Egypt is an exploration of gypsy identity, as revealed over centuries and across continents through the stories that Joseph tells to his wife. It is a tale of glory overshadowed always by grim reality that led to the gates of Auschwitz. Yet when the private world of Joseph and Lucie is threatened, the strength of their love and the strength of the gypsy spirit fuse to lift their story onto a shimmering new plane.

Humor & Satire

Arcade

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The Storm: A novel

First Grey, Then White, Then Blue

Duke of Egypt

Duke of Egypt

Duke of Egypt: A Novel

The Virtuoso

First Gray, Then White, Then Blue

Duke of Egypt: A Novel

The Kreutzer Sonata: A Novel (Kreutzersonate)

Duke of Egypt: A Novel