New Neighbours
If the new Dutch landscape can be characterized by anything, it is the large-scale new housing estates near to the major cities. Street after street of identical houses in neat rows. The television is located in the same corner of every living room because that’s where the architect placed the power point. Each occupant sits in the same IKEA sofa in front of the tv. ‘Nothing ever happens there’ is an often-repeated comment by people who don’t live there.
FictionPrint
Original title
Nieuwe buren
Author
Saskia Noort
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Saskia Noort is a Michel Houellebecq for more straightforward minds. With broad brush strokes and lots of sex (which keeps spirits up), she paints the vacuity of monomaniacal characters who, in their everyday trivialities, evoke deep-seated recognition and against whom the reader inevitably compares favourably.
HP/De Tijd
Saskia Noort
Saskia Noort (b. 1967) debuted in 2003 with 'Terug naar de kust' (Back to the Coast), of which more than 200,000 copies have now been sold.