Yael van der Wouden

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Yael van der Wouden


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Tel Aviv, Israel
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Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. In 2024 it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 108,754 ratings · 15,714 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The Safekeep
4.07 avg rating — 108,338 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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De goede immigrant. 23 visi...
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“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
tags: death-of-a-loved-one
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“What was joy, anyway. What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
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“She had made the kitchen a lovely place. Isabel could cry at it: at how a room could be made, and left behind, and turn terrible by way of absence. How a space could miss a person.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
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