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1) The Safekeep
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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE *
Longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary PrizeA Best Book of 2024: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, The Sunday Times (London)
"Remarkable...Compelling...Fine and taut...Indelible." —The New York...
Longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize
"Remarkable...Compelling...Fine and taut...Indelible." —The New York...
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English
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"It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be--led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel's doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: she...
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