Gliding Flight

ANNE-GINE GOEMANS worked for Volkskrant Magazine as a journalist. Gliding Flight was awarded the Dioraphte Literary Prize and the German M Pionier Award for new literary talent (previously awarded to Herman Koch). Gliding Flight was longlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize.
NANCY FOREST-FLIER is a New Jersey¿born translator who moved to Europe in 1982 and has worked in the Netherlands since 1988. She lives in Alkmaar. Her literary translations include The King by Kader Abdolah, Dissident for Life by Koenraad de Wolf, Gliding Flight by Anne-Gine Goemans, We and Me by Saskia de Coster, Mr. Miller by Charles den Tex, Departure Time by Truus Matti, Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and The Story of Shit by Midas Dekkers. Nancy also translates children¿s literature and has translated for numerous Dutch museums and institutes, including The Anne Frank House and the Kröller-Müller Museum (home to the world¿s second largest Van Gogh collection).

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Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a spotters' campsite beside an airstrip. The landscape is as isolated as Gieles himself. The fourteen-year-old boy is longing for affection from his mother, who is always away on hopeless missions to save the world from starvation. From the mysterious dreadlocked girl he has met online. As the houses in the area threaten to disappear because of new noise regulations and the relationship between Gieles's parents deteriorates, the boy conceives a desperate plan to try to reconnect his parents.