This is where we come from
A mother and daughter lead a wandering existence, a factory worker dreams of starting a tropical-fish store, two lovers decide to build a house together, and the little mermaid is confronted with harsh reality.
In this story about animal people and human animals, the fairy tales of Andersen and Grimm find their contemporary resonance. This is where we come from is an intense and extraordinary debut by a surprising new voice in literature.
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Novel
Release date: Sep 15, 2021
Pages: 224
Publisher: Querido
ISBN: 9789021421278
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"An engaged writer, Leonieke Baerwaldt, and also original."
“The Little Mermaid fairy tale moved to the present. This debutant does it so original and smart that you are left slightly stunned. Those scars behind that mother's ear... are they gills? Hooray, the literary experiment is still alive. '
“Leonieke Baerwaldt weaves the enchanting visual language of a fairy tale with a raw story of loss, displacement, poverty and abuse.”
“Leonieke Baerwaldt returns to the gruesome aspect in our fairy tales in her extraordinary debut, “Here We Come From.” A happy ending gives way to social criticism.”
“It's really impressive. It is a mosaic story (...) and she succeeds with gusto. Keep an eye on that name. '
“The incongruity of life, seriously shaped. Great book, in the sense of being speechless, impressed. '
“Thanks to Baerwaldt's recycling of fables, myths, and fairy tales by Andersen and Grimm, we experience what binds us, humans.”
'(...) Leonieke Baerwaldt's wonderful yet poignant debut.'
“Baerwaldt has a solid, unemphatically visual style.”
“A wonderful and wonderful debut by Leonieke Baerwaldt, which amazes the reader from one to the next.”
“It's a hypnotic, melancholic story that Baerwaldt tells. Her words are poetic and each one is convincing. '
“Impressive debut novel.”
“Just as every fairy tale shows something of what people hope, suspect, desire or fear, “Here we come from” also moves into the deeper layers of our soul.”
