Outer Life
Esse and Rivka, a lesbian couple in their mid-thirties, move to a tiny village in the countryside. They embark on their rural idyll with high expectations, but nothing turns out the way they expect. 'Outer Life' is a novel about shattered dreams, personality clashes and finding your place in the world, as moving as it is witty.
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Original title
Buitenleven
Author
Nina Polak
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‘Between the sardonic cynicism, the naive romanticising and the riveting crime subplot, this novel more than delivers on the expectations it sets.’
NRC Handelsblad
‘Polak is on peak form when, toward the end of the novel, she gives us the verbatim verbal warfare of increasingly heated arguments.’
De Groene Amsterdammer
Nina Polak
Nina Polak (b. 1986) studied Literature and Cultural Analysis in Amsterdam and New York. She made her debut in 2014 with 'We zullen niet te pletter slaan' (We Won’t Be Smashed to Pieces), which was nominated for the Anton de Wachter Prize, the ANV Debut Prize and the Opzij Literature Prize.