Bonita Avenue
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Joni Sigerius, de dochter van de rector magnificus van de Twentse universiteit, drijft samen met haar vriend Aaron een handeltje dat ze maar liever voor haar krachtige en briljante vader verborgen houdt. Het is in het jaar van de vuurwerkramp dat ook in het gezin de boel explodeert. Niet alleen lopen Joni en Aaron tegen de lamp, die zomer komt ook de enige en echte zoon van Sigerius vrij uit de Scheveningse gevangenis. Acht jaar later pas - Joni verdient inmiddels miljoenen in Los Angeles - verneemt Aaron wat er zich in 2000 werkelijk heeft afgespeeld.
Peter Buwalda schreef een meeslepende debuutroman over noodlot en verval, idylle en schoonheid.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dutch author Buwalda's magnificent first novel offers proof of Tolstoy's dictum that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Three uniquely unreliable voices narrate this darkly humorous familial drama: the mentally precarious Aaron Bever; his beautiful girlfriend, Joni Sigerius; and her stepfather, eminent math genius and university rector Siem Sigerius. Their interweaving narratives, which hop between the Netherlands, Shanghai, Belgium, and California, chart the years between the rise and fall of their outwardly successful but privately dysfunctional family. Buwalda displays the sexual appetites of his characters from puritanical to hedonistic against the 1990s backdrop of an emerging Internet and concomitant ascendency of online porn. Temperatures rise until the explosion of a Dutch fireworks factory, which is followed by familial pyrotechnics. A custard doughnut plays a decisive role in deciding the Sigeriuses' fate. Questions arise regarding the nature of probability and coincidence, as well as who really gets to wear not only the pants in a relationship but the racy feminine undergarments, too.
