Novels
- First Grey, Then White, Then Blue (1994)
- The Virtuoso (1996)
- Duke of Egypt (2001)
- Kreutzer Sonata (2005)
- The Storm (2010)
- Sleepless Night (2019)
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Margriet de Moor Books Overview
First Grey, Then White, Then Blue
Magda in life no less than Magda in death was an enigma. A free spirit, alluring but private, loving yet remote. Where did she go during the years of her disappearance? Was it truly to the world of the stars? For her husband Robert, who wanted to possess her, body and soul, what Magda gave him was never enough. He murdered her, leaving her lover to discover her body. Now, as friends gather for her funeral, the mystery of Magda’s life is slowly, tantalizingly, revealed. Who really knew Magda, and what truths has her death revealed? First Gray, Then White, Then Blue, Margriet de Moor’s first novel, is a story of perception, love, and mortality, told with a bewitching power. Margriet de Moor’s novels and stories have been garnering high praise on both sides of the Atlantic, and her feel for physical detail, psychological nuance, and the quiet power of her storytelling have made her one of the most interesting and provocative contemporary writers. First Gray, Then White, Then Blue will be sure to captivate lovers of last year’s The Virtuoso, while finding new fans for a writer endowed with the gift for mapping emotional worlds with unerring accuracy.
The Virtuoso
From the highly acclaimed Dutch writer Margriet de Moor, an extremely sensitive and sensual recreation of 18th Century Naples. For one entire opera season, Carlotta sits in her candle lit box held in the spell of a world in which knowledge, beauty and love collide: music. She is falling in love with the castrati, Gasparo. Set in eighteenth century Naples, a place of carriages, churches visited by criminals, and ships resting in dusky harbors, The Virtuoso is the tale of an exceptional place and an exceptional passion.A bestseller throughout Europe, The Virtuoso is both a wonderfully romantic historical novel and a literary triumph. With this very unusual love story, her first publication in the United States, Margriet de Moor is sure to attract a great many American readers.’Margriet de Moor’s virtuoso novel meets exactly the taste of our own time for the bizarre made sympathetic, the beautiful seen as the technical…
De Moor formerly a singer describes Gasparo’s singing, his swoony effect on his audiences and his lady’s delight in his naked body with rhapsodically expert relish.’ Sunday Times London’The rapturous verve in de Moor’s style is fueled by a swirl of period details which, for once in a novel of this kind, are neither mere set dressing nor too patently the results of background research.’ Times Literary Supplement
Duke of Egypt
Young, flame haired Lucie raises horses on her father’s farm. One summer day, she meets a dark, handsome stranger, Joseph, and it is love at first sight. But their union is as improbable as their love is deep. For Joseph is a wanderer, a full blooded Gypsy, a man for whom all Europe is a stomping ground. Despite their cultural differences, they marry, have three children, and lead a normal life with one exception: each spring their life is suspended as Joseph returns to his other family, the Gypsies, scattered to the four corners of Europe.
The Storm
On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The morning of The Storm, Armanda asks her sister, Lidy, to take her place on a visit to her godchild in the town of Zierikzee. In turn, Armanda will care for Lidy’s two year old daughter and accompany Lidy’s husband to a party. The sisters, both of them young and beautiful, look so alike that no one may even notice. But what Armanda can t know is that her little comedy is a provocation to fate: Lidy is headed for the center of the deadly storm. Margriet de Moor interweaves the stories of these two sisters, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief strewn aftermath. While Lidy struggles to survive, surrounded by people she barely knows, Armanda must master the future, trying to live out the life of her missing sister as if it were her own.A brilliant meshing of history and imagination, The Storm is a powerfully dramatic and psychologically gripping novel from one of Europe s most compelling writers.
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