Shocked Earth

Shocked Earth
Antoinette Fawcett, Saskia Goldschmidt
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NZ$ 33.99
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
1 Apr 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781912235681
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Femke, her mother Trijn and her grandfather have very different ideas about how to run their family farm. Tensions between mother and daughter are growing; Femke wants to switch to sustainable growing principles, whilst her mother considers this an attack on tradition. To make matters worse, their home province of Groningen is experiencing a series of earthquakes caused by a fracking operation near their farm. While the cracks and splinters in their farmhouse increase, the authorities and the state-owned gas company refuse to offer the local farming community any help. In Shocked Earth, Saskia Goldschmidt investigates what it means to have your identity intensely entwined with your place of birth and your principles at odds with your closest kin. And how to keep standing when the world as you know it is slowly falling apart.
' Shocked Earth shows us the impact of natural disasters on people' s lives. This is what literature can do. ' Nieuwsweekend; ' Goldschmidt manages to portray the lives of farmers in great literary style, and with authentic vocabulary. ' Het Parool; ' Goldschmidt writes eloquently. . . showing the way the North of the Netherlands is held captive by the gas sourcing business. ' NRC; ' In order to be able to write Shocked Earth, Saskia Goldschmidt moved to a rural region . . . worked on a dairy farm and spoke to its inhabitants. This effort pays off in this thorough novel with a lot of empathy, showing how the earthquakes . . . forever change the lives of the people trying to keep this business going. ' Dagblad van het Noorden; "Shocked Earth exquisitely captures the way our lives and identities are interwoven with the land we live on, and how its destruction will ultimately be our own. A powerful portrait of a family, an exploration of love and grief, it is perhaps most of all an essential call to action - I was both heartbroken and inspired. " Helen Sedgwick; "A novel with great ambitions, which remains credible. " Faithful; "Last weekend I read the book in one breath. How little did I know about the problems and life in the Groningen countryside. Saskia Goldschmidt' s novel drags you along and although it doesn' t get heavy anywhere you gradually feel the oppression and how people are made murmur by bureaucracy and rules. Her descriptions of nature and land are almost poetic and will probably attract more people to Groningen. Shoot for a large audience, I will definitely recommend this beautiful novel!" Ria van Halem, bookseller Boekaa Verkaaik
Saskia Goldschmidt studied at the Arts Academy Utrecht. The Hormone Factory (Saraband 2016) was reprinted several times in Dutch and was sold to seven countries. Film rights have been sold to the French production company Film Talents. The Vintage Queen (2015) is a favourite among Dutch bookshops and was published in German by dtv in May 2018.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912235681
Published: 1 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Saraband
Publisher: Saraband
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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