{"product_id":"amsterdam-stories-9781590174920","title":"Amsterdam Stories","description":"No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for \"I don't know\"--was the pen name of J.H.F. Gr nloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the first English translation of Nescio's stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16608095\"\u003eNescio\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590174920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590174925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC043000\"\u003eComing of Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1961) was born in Amsterdam, the oldest of four children. After an idealistic youth, he joined the Holland-Bombay Trading Company in 1904, becoming director in 1926, suffering a nervous breakdown leading to a short hospitalization in 1927, and retiring at age fifty-five, on December 31, 1937; he married Aagje Tiket (b. 1883) in 1906 and had four daughters with her, born in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1912. Meanwhile, as Nescio (Latin for \"I don't know\"; he adopted a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize his business career, acknowledging his authorship publicly only in 1929), he wrote what is now considered perhaps the best prose in the Dutch language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include \u003ci\u003eWhat We Were Doing and Where We Were Going\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Inkblots\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Translation\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's \u003ci\u003eAnniversaries\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Ireland, he spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44537258868973,"sku":"9781590174920","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_006c641d-30bb-4e18-aeea-a9b7d8b0b1fd.jpg?v=1701439413","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/amsterdam-stories-9781590174920","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}