Helena Hoogenkamp Adoring Louis Claus

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‘Youth, adversity, growing up: these are the materials that many literary debuts are made of, but Hoogenkamp stands above the rest for her crisp style and clever dosing.’– **** NRC Handelsblad

Adoring Louis Claus is about the thin line between longing and despair, keeping silent and speaking out; a poetic quest for intimacy.

It’s 2003, the summer that Louis Claus goes to school wearing a clown suit and Carla cuts her trousers too short, the summer that her father discovers a tumour in her mother’s breast as they make love and her friend Juicy is expelled from school for cocaine-use. After that summer, they go their separate ways, but years later, after her mother’s death, Carla once again becomes fascinated by Louis, who is now a successful author. Upon returning to her memories, she appears to have misjudged their relationship.

World rights: De Bezige Bij – Novel – 212 pages – February 2021 English, German and Spanish sample translation available