Without Mercy

Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

Dorrestein,Renate

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Reminiscent of Andre Dubus’s critically acclaimed In the Bedroom and  Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys, Renate Dorrestein’s new novel  explores the undercurrents of married life and the world of today’s teenagers.  "Perfect" was the word both for Phinus and Franka Vermeer’s marriage and their  teenage son, Jem, but in the wake of his senseless murder, grief drives a wedge  between them. Determined to resurrect the joy they once knew, the couple embarks  on a weekend in the country to mend their fraying relationship. Their marital  troubles, however, run deeper than they realize. Suspenseful, tragic, and  strangely touching, Without Mercy portrays the preciousness of everyday  happiness.

DOUBLEDAY

For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile, troubling place. Her mother reserves her affection for her younger, live-in-lover, and for Waldo, Christine's teenage brother. Christine viciously takes out her angry feelings on her Barbies and on a weaker girl in her class. Then on a family holiday in Scotland, a tragic accident occurs for which Christine blames herself, and panic-stricken, she runs away with her four-year-old brother, and hides in the back of a stranger's car. Agnes Stam is an elderly Dutch spinster, making her annual summer pilgrimage to her family's holiday cottage on Mull. When she discover the little stowaways in her car, she fails to report the missing children and allows them to stay. And so a little girl with a big, guilty secret becomes a lonely old woman's salvation - and also her nemesis.

A Crying Shame

Black Swan.

Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. 25,000 first printing.

Literary

Viking Adult

A Dutch girl living in suburban Amsterdam, Ellen Van Bemmel begins to delve into her own past when a traumatic event shakes her idyllic family life. 25,000 first printing.

A Heart of Stone

Velmans, Hester

Genre Fiction

Thorndike Pr

“Just a remarkable book. Haunting characters, amazing voice, propulsive plot. I hope we see a lot more from Dorrestein. Count me among her fans.”―Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
“Dorrestein knows how to chill her readers with tragedy and then melt their hearts with forgiveness.” ―Susan Vreeland on A Heart of Stone
Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood becomes an ordeal of constant, vicious bullying. After her mother’s release, Lucy’s family decides to escape and make a clean start on a rugged Scottish island. But even here, in this remote corner of the world, Lucy’s past holds a firm grip on her. Told in the alternating voices of the bullies and Lucy, this darkly atmospheric and emotionally gripping story is part family drama and part mystery.
Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018) was an internationally bestselling author who occupies a unique position within Dutch literature. An extraordinary storyteller, known for her unsentimental depiction of children and their flawed families, Dorrestein’s wicked humor offsets the darkness of her subjects. Her novels have been made into films and translated into fifteen languages.

The Darkness that Divides Us

World Editions

Archeologist Zwier's wife Bonnie left him years ago with the task of raising their daughter, Mary Emma. Now Zwier is bringing the eleven-year-old back to Holland from Africa. Their arrival brings long-hidden tensions and secrets into view - and forces changes in the life of Zwier, Bonnie and her relatives, and most importantly, Mary Emma herself.

Unnatural Mothers

Women in Translation

Ontaarde moeders (Dutch Edition)

Contact

Het hemelse gerecht (Dutch Edition)

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Without Mercy

Without Mercy

A Crying Shame

Without Mercy

A Heart of Stone

A Heart of Stone

The Darkness that Divides Us

Unnatural Mothers

Ontaarde moeders (Dutch Edition)

Het hemelse gerecht (Dutch Edition)