Femke

4.30 ( 56 Ratings by Goodreads)
Femke

Femke

4.30 (56 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 17 May, 2023
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Walking turn-of-the-century Amsterdam with her loyal dog Bibi, Femke is many things: a drifter who spends much of her time in a drug-ridden park; a daughter of the colonial Dutch; a magnetic personality prone to petit mal seizures and destructive relationships; a liar. This is her story. After being drawn into the unsettling world of a British filmmaker and his wife, she meets and befriends an ageing poet, Michiel de Koning, and tries to nurse him back to health. As their friendship develops, De Koning's mysterious past - involving the poet and murderer Gerrit Achterberg - leads Femke on a journey to discover the identity of De Koning's great love and inspiration, 'M'. This pursuit of the truth reveals the uncertainties of her own past in a world of unreliable listeners. Written with a clear poetic sensibility and strong echoes of European Modernism, Femke is a celebration of the stories we tell ourselves and one another, the elusiveness of our fleeting connections, and the complex power dynamics between poet and muse.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781838080082
ISBN10 1838080082
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Taproot Press
Format hardback
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'Compelling. Femke is a truly unique and memorable character.' - Ewan Morrison

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Author's Bio

David Cameron is a Glasgow-born poet and novelist. In 2014 he received the Hennessy Literary Award. He is, according to Ron Butlin, 'one of the most insightful and thought-provoking poets around', and his poetry (collected in The Bright Tethers and Korean Letters) has also been praised by Seamus Heaney and Liz Lochhead, among others. Reviewing Cameron's first collection of fiction, Rousseau Moon, Robert Nye wrote that his work 'transmutes the base matter of common experience into something like gold'; Alistair Braidwood described Cameron's experimental novel, Prendergast's Fall, as 'one of the most inventive and interesting novels of recent times'. Cameron has also written a critical study, Samuel Beckett: The Middle and Later Years. He continues to work closely with the Toronto-based composer David Jaeger on several settings of his poems. From late 2000 to mid-2004, Cameron lived in Amsterdam, where Femke is set, teaching English before becoming a writer-editor for the European Cultural Foundation. He now works as a learning consultant in Belfast. He is married to the Irish glass artist Louise Rice, and they have three children.

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