The Quiet - Het leek stiller dan het was
On the coastal Dutch isle of Vlieland Seije lives with her single mother Fenna. She feels like an outsider in the small community, only her best friend Teun really understands her. They walk the dunes for hours, the briny air in their lungs, bare feet in the sand and as they grow up they drink too much and party till the sun comes up. Fenna seems to forget to raise her daughter.
After a dramatic event Seije leaves the island to study in Edinburgh. Her academic career and a new love take her to New York. But her ambition and her self-confidence don't seem to run parallel. Can she take control of the nagging feeling that she'll never do well enough now her world is expanding so rapidly?
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PRESS:
'The Quiet sketches an efficacious and touching story of a woman who gets tangled up in her past. Beautiful.' Margriet Magazine
'With The Quiet Eva Kelder (1980) has really put herself on the map as a literary talent.' Opzij Magazine
Author
Eva Kelder (1980) studied English and journalism. During her stay in the US she worked on a cross medial project In Search of Americans, which resulted in a book and several short movies for Dutch TV Network VPRO's program Holland Doc. In 2012 her first short story was published in literary magazine Passionate. Several publications and a radio column followed. The Quiet (Het leek stiller dan het was) was is Eva's debut novel a gorgeous Beautiful debut on finding your path in life, following a young woman from the isle of Vlieland to New York.She is currently working on a collection of short stories.