The next data on Lisa Boersen’s García Márquez en de Honeymoonquiz: Hoe verhalen ons vormen (Atlas Contact, November 2022) in addition to translations of the writer’s introduction and the e book evaluation excerpts, from Dutch to English, are by Peter Jordens.
In García Márquez and the Honeymoonquiz: How Tales Form Us, Lisa Boersen searches for solutions. She is the daughter of a Dutch father and a Dominican mom. She grew up in her father’s nation, however her worldview can be formed by the tales that her mom used to inform her. These tales are about colourful characters who conquer your coronary heart and stick with you, as they stayed with Boersen and are her information in life. Now that she has kids of her personal, she is confronted with the query of which tales to go on to them. What do the tales say about resilience and resistance, about class and faith, or what it means to be ‘dwelling’? With wit and humor, Boersen connects outdated household tales to private anecdotes. The result’s a wealthy assortment of essays that reveals what it’s wish to develop up multiculturally and that, above all, makes us notice how a lot we’re formed by our tales.
A e book evaluation by Ko van Geemert appeared on p. 9 of the December 3, 2022 print version of Ñapa, the weekend complement of the Curaçaoan newspaper Amigoe. Listed here are excerpts:
Lisa Boersen (1975) grew up in The Netherlands. She studied Anthropology and Literary Research and has written plenty of kids’s books. The tales that her Dominican mom used to inform her immersed her within the tradition, historical past, norms, values and life knowledge of the Dominican Republic. […]
On the finish of her e book, Boersen explains its intriguing title: “[…] when the winners of the Honeymoonquiz (a well-liked household recreation present in The Netherlands, introduced by Ron Brandsteder) received a visit to the Dominican Republic, all The Netherlands witnessed an island with white seashores, palm timber and a clear-blue sea. The Dominican Republic surfaced as a land of cocktails with little umbrellas. Immediately, my mom’s origins had been thought of to be a paradise and at school, my very own standing rose a number of notches.”
Sooner or later in time, Boersen found the work of Latin American author García Márquez: “This was a world that I knew: this was the world of my mom’s tales. Love within the Time of Cholera takes place in a fictional city in South America round 1900. It felt very acquainted to me. […] When Captain Diego Samaritano prepares breakfast consisting of fried eggs with plátanos (fried plantains), I cried. I had by no means thought that I might discover my favourite meals in a e book.”
Lisa Boersen’s lovingly written e book is a poignant illustration of the difficulties of residing between two cultures and the worth of storytelling.
García Márquez en de Honeymoonquiz: Hoe verhalen ons vormen
Lisa Boersen
Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, November 2022
Style: Literary non-fiction
Language: Dutch
120 pages
ISBN 978-9045045696 (hc)
For the unique data (in Dutch), see https://www.atlascontact.nl/boek/garcia-marquez-en-de-honeymoonquiz