Ironhead, Or Once a Young Lady  by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, translated by Kristen Gehrman Levine Querido, 368 p., February 2022 Original title: IJzerkop, Querido Synopsis Four months into the marriage, she can slip out of their bed in the middle of the night, and she can put on his clothes. She can look in the mirror…

by Lize Spit, translated by Kristen Gehrman Picador / Pan Macmillan, 416 p, May 21, 2021 Original title: Het smelt, Das Mag Synopsis Challenging and disturbing, The Melting is an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.’ – Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby…

by Alexander Münninghoff, translated by Kristen Gehrman Amazon Crossing, 293 p., Aug 1, 2020 Original title: De stamhouder: een familiekroniek, Prometheus Synopsis A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post–World War II Europe. What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter…

by Dola de Jong, translated by Kristen Gehrman Transit Books, 140 p. May 19, 2020 Longlisted for the Vondel Translation Prize, 2021 Original title: De thuiswacht, Cossee Synopsis When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and…

by Annejet van der Zijl, translated by Kristen Gehrman Amazon Crossing, 272 p, August 1, 2019 Original title: Sonny Boy, Querido Synopsis When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty,…