Bøger af Anne Eekhout

"A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel." -J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters"A fantastically moody, unsettling novel."-Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and FingersmithA "bold ... hypnotic" (The New Yorker) reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the recent loss of her child, Mary spends her days in strife. But come nightfall, the friends while away rainy wine-soaked evenings gathered around the fireplace, exchanging stories. One famous evening, Byron issues a challenge to write the best ghost story. Contemplating what to write, Mary recalls another summer, when she was fourteen...Scotland, 1812. A guest of the Baxter family, Mary arrives in Dundee, befriending young Isabella Baxter. The girls soon spend hours together wandering through fields and forests, concocting tales about mythical Scottish creatures, ghosts and monsters roaming the lowlands. As their bond deepens, Mary and Isabella's feelings for each other intensify. But someone has been watching them--the charismatic and vaguely sinister Mr. Booth, Isabella's older brother-in-law, who may not be as benevolent as he purports to be...With gripping mastery and verve, Anne Eekhout brings to life a defining moment in Mary Shelley's youth: the creative wellspring for one of the most original, thrilling, and timeless pieces of literature ever written. Provocative, wonderfully atmospheric and pulsing with emotion, Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein is a hypnotic ode to the power of imagination.Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson

In this sapphic reimagining, Mary Shelley, the brilliant mind behind Frankenstein, finds romance, mystery, and inspiration for her literary masterpiece as a spirited adolescent.

I 1816, da Mary Shelley er 18 år gammel, skriver hun den ikoniske fortælling om Frankensteins monster. Denne sommer tilbringer hun og manden Percy Shelley nogle måneder ved Genevesøen som gæster hos poeten Lord Byron og lægen John Polidori. Under de lange aftener ved pejsen fortæller vennerne hinanden spøgelseshistorier. En aften giver Lord Byron dem en udfordring. Hvem af dem kan selv skrive den uhyggeligste historie? I en hyldest til forestillingsevnen genskaber romanen forfatteren Mary Shelleys kunstneriske opvågning i en sansemættet fortælling om uskyld, ung kærlighed og gotisk mystik.Om forfatteren:Anne Eekhout (f. 1981, Holland) debuterede i 2014 med romanen "Dogma", som hun fik ideen til, da hun studerede jura i Amsterdam. For romanen blev hun nomineret til Bronzen Uil-prisen for bedste debut. "Mary" er Anne Eekhouts fjerde bog. Romanen er baseret på forfatteren Mary Shelleys teenageår, hvor fortællingen om Frankenstein og hans monster begynder at tage form. Mary fik fremragende anmeldelser, da den udkom i Holland, og er nu solgt til udgivelse i 13 lande.