Marente de Moor
Marente de Moor (b. 1972) worked as a correspondent in Saint Petersburg for a number of years and wrote a book based on her experiences, 'Peterburgse vertellingen' (Petersburg Stories), which was published in 1999.
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The Dutch Maiden
In the summer of 1936, the Dutch doctor Jacq sends his eighteen-year-old daughter Janna to stay with Egon von Bötticher, a German he befriended as a young man. This aristocratic fencing master, who is to help Janna perfect her own fencing skills, whiles away his days on a country estate, where he organises the forbidden Mensur for students, a duel in which participants inflict visible injuries as a sign of courage. Egon is an enigmatic figure, as attractive and irresistible as Heathcliff, and Janna inevitably falls for him.
Phon
Marente de Moor understands the art of storytelling like no other. In this dark psychological novel she explores the power of the imagination and gradually unearths the secrets buried deep in the memory of her protagonist, Nadja. As a young lab analyst, Nadja set off into the forests of Russia with her scientist husband, but now, in old age, the full extent of the loneliness that connects her to nature is making itself felt. It is a void she will fill with love and with stories.