THISTLE by Nadia de Vries
with a reading by Nadia de Vries at 6.30pm
Saturday November 23, 6pm
Join us for the Amsterdam launch of Thistle, the English translation of Nadia de Vries’s debut novel De bakvis, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey (The New Menard Press, 2024).
Thistle’s father has been dead for twenty years. He passed away when Thistle was thirteen, and at the time she didn’t really know what death meant. Now, at thirty-three, grief hits her hard, and the world is slowly turning against her. Her furniture has begun to speak, and she suspects her neighbours are up to something. A gang of weasels has taken residence in her home. Thistle desperately wants to return to simpler times, when the world was still kind and her body was innocent. Armed with a hard drive full of childhood photos, Thistle attempts to bring her old self back to life — online, where strangers love teenage girls.
