Tench

by Inge Schilperoord

‘Zweig’s fictional masterpiece’ Guardian

  THE ENCOUNTER

  PETRU POPESCU

  ‘A book that suggests new ways of looking at the world and our place within it’ Sunday Telegraph

  WAKE UP, SIR!

  JONATHAN AMES

  ‘The novel is extremely funny but it is also sad and poignant, and almost incredibly clever’ Guardian

  THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY

  STEFAN ZWEIG

  ‘The World of Yesterday is one of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century, as perfect in its evocation of the world Zweig loved, as it is in its portrayal of how that world was destroyed’ David Hare

  WAKING LIONS

  AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN

  ‘A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it’ Daily Mail

  BONITA AVENUE

  PETER BUWALDA

  ‘One wild ride: a swirling helix of a family saga… a new writer as toe-curling as early Roth, as roomy as Franzen and as caustic as Houellebecq’ Sunday Telegraph

  JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT

  ANTAL SZERB

  ‘Just divine… makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

  BEFORE THE FEAST

  SAŠA STANIŠIĆ

  ‘Exceptional… cleverly done, and so mesmerising from the off… thought-provoking and energetic’ Big Issue

  A SIMPLE STORY

  LEILA GUERRIERO

  ‘An epic of noble proportions… [Guerriero] is a mistress of the telling phrase or the revealing detail’ Spectator

  FORTUNES OF FRANCE

  ROBERT MERLE

  1 The Brethren

  2 City of Wisdom and Blood

  3 Heretic Dawn

  ‘Swashbuckling historical fiction’ Guardian

  TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY

  ANDRÉS NEUMAN

  ‘A beautiful, accomplished novel: as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it is smart’ Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Guardian

  ONE NIGHT, MARKOVITCH

  AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN

  ‘Wry, ironically tinged and poignant… this is a fable for the twenty-first century’ Sunday Telegraph

  KARATE CHOP & MINNA NEEDS REHEARSAL SPACE

  DORTHE NORS

  ‘Unique in form and effect… Nors has found a novel way of getting into the human heart’ Guardian

  RED LOVE: THE STORY OF AN EAST GERMAN FAMILY

  MAXIM LEO

  ‘Beautiful and supremely touching… an unbearably poignant description of a world that no longer exists’ Sunday Telegraph

  SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM

  PETER FRÖBERG IDLING

  ‘Beautifully evocative… a must-read novel’ Daily Mail

  Copyright

  Pushkin Press

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  London, WC2H 9JQ

  Original text © Inge Schilperoord 2015

  English translation © David Colmer, 2017

  Published by special arrangement with Uitgeverij Podium in conjunction with their duly appointed agent 2 Seas Literary Agency.

  Tench was first published as Muidhond in Amsterdam, 2015

  First published by Pushkin Press in 2017

  ISBN 978 1 78227 285 4

  This publication has been made possible with financial support from the Dutch Foundation for Literature

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