The Bible for Unbelievers
The Beginning-Genesis
$57.03
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2016
Summary
A wildly imaginative retelling of the Book of Genesis.One of Northern Europe’s most popular writers, Guus Kuijer was fascinated with the Bible from an early age, but was never able to believe it, no matter how hard he tried. Now, in prose that is humorous and sometimes irreverent, Kuijer reinterprets the most popular book in the world, making it new again for the twenty-first century and for the first time rendering it accessible to “unbelievers”–that is, to people who are ready to appreciate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609806767 |
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| ISBN-10: | 160980676X |
| Author: | Guus Kuijer, Laura Watkinson |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 158mm |
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About The Author
Guus Kuijer
GUUS KUIJER was born in Amsterdam in 1942, and is one of the most popular writers for both children and adults in the Netherlands, where he is perhaps best known for his Madelief and Polleke series of books. Polleke was made into a successful movie. He has won numerous major awards and his works have been translated into several languages, with several of his books being made in successful plays, The Book of Everything being staged in Australia for several years now, and was also staged in New York. In 2012 Kuijer won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for his writing for children, and in 2014 he was shortlisted for the prestigious AKO Literature Prize for adult fiction. Kuijer currently resides in Zuidschermer, a small, rural town in the Netherlands.LAURA WATKINSON has translated books by authors including Cees Nooteboom and Tonke Dragt. Her translations have won the ALA’s Mildred L. Batchelder award for children’s books in translation three times. She lives in a tall, thin house on a canal in Amsterdam.
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