On the Water by On The Water Hans Van Den Brink
Happiness only exists when you can touch it and I held it, I'm still holding it, that summer of 1939, now, here tonight.' Two young oarsmen are trained as a coxless pair by a mysterious German coach in the golden summer of pre-war Amsterdam.
'Rarely have sport and literature combined so seamlessly to produce such a small miracle of a book'Daniel Topolski, Guardian
Paul Vincent studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over twenty years became a full-time translator in 1989. Since then he has published a wide variety of translated poetry, non-fiction and fiction, including work by Achterberg, Claus, Couperus, Mulisch and Van den Brink. He was awarded the Vondel Prize and jointly awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Dutch at UCL.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571209248 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571209246 |
| Title | On the Water |
| Author | On The Water Hans Van Den Brink |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2002-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002 |
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