Gustaaf Peek

Gustaaf Peek (b. 1975) studied English language and literature at Leiden University. His debut novel Armin appeared in 2006. His second novel, Dover, came out in early 2008, inspired by the fatal drama of a group of Chinese immigrants at the British port of Dover. In 2010, his third novel, Ik was Amerika (I Was America) won him the BNG and F. Bordewijk Prizes. Godin, held (Goddess, Hero, 2014) received a rapturous reception and has been nominated for the 2015 Libris Literature Prize.

I Was America

(Querido, 2010, 286 pages)

The German prisoners of war interned in American prison camps during World War II are a forgotten page of history. There was not enough space for them in Europe, but the plains of Texas were wide and empty. Ultimately, over 425,000 Germans and Italians, most of them from the front in North Africa, were to spend the remainder of the war in military barracks on the other side of the ocean.

Goddess, Hero

(Querido, 2014, 274 pages)

What is the nature of sexual attraction, the essence of the chemistry that draws people together? And what is it that stops two people in love from sharing their lives with each other? Gustaaf Peek examines these matters in his erotically charged novel Goddess, Hero, an ingeniously constructed tale of two lovers who find and lose each other.

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Gustaaf Peek

I Was America

Goddess, Hero

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