Synopses & Reviews
Bart Moeyaertaward-winning author, television writer, playwright, and translatorrecounts in forty-two stories his adventures and misadventures as the youngest of seven brothers growing up in Belgium in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In one story, he tells how it felt to watch a boat, one that he had been prevented by his brothers from boarding, sink under the weight of them. In another, he recounts the first time he gets big news to share and how confused he was when his brothers weren't exactly impressed with his excited announcement that their beloved grandmother had died. In these stories, originally published serially in a Belgian magazine on literature and culture, Moeyaert shares memories of his life with the tenderness and clarity for which his fiction is famous.
About the Author
Bart Moeyaert made his debut with the autobiographical Duet Out of Tune (1983). It was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Children and Youth Jury in 1984, was translated into German, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese and was given other lives as a play and a musical. Moeyaert's other novels, such as Suzanne Dantine (1989) and the novella Kiss Me--which received the Book Lion 1992 awardare poetic and evocative. Bare Hands received the Book Lion 1996 award and was nominated for the prestigious Golden Pencil Award.Bart has been a full-time author since 1995. He has written television scripts and plays; he has translated several novels and written a series of articles about design in De Standaard, a Belgian daily.