Peter Terrin All The Blue

Nominated for the ‘Boekenbon’ Literature Prize 2021

‘Peter Terrin has once again delivered a pitch-perfect book, in its mood and intensity reminiscent of novels by Graham Swift and Ian McEwan.’ – Trouw

‘Terrin describes their love as warm, full and greedy. Their love-making is electrifying (…) It is the way in which he describes the rest, coolly but dramatically, like a sob held in with all one’s might. It tightens itself around your neck like a steel wire.’**** – de Volkskrant

Simon is nineteen years old when he walks out in the middle of a lecture and drops out of university. He feels lost and doesn’t know how to relate to the village and the modest world he grew up in. Together with his best friend Marc, he whiles away long hours in the Azzurra, a poolside café in the nearby provincial city. It is there, surrounded by the blue brilliance of the pool lit up at night, that a passionate relationship arises between Simon and Carla Binotto, an Italian bartender twenty years his senior. There are rumours about her troubled past and about John, her boorish husband. In hypnotic prose, Pete Terrin carries the reader back to the late eighties and to Carla and Simon, who each find themselves at a turning point in their lives, facing impossible choices.

World rights: De Bezige Bij – Rights sold: Liebeskind (Germany) – Novel – 287 pages –February 2021 – English sample translation available