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Hoving, Isabel; Velmans, Hester

 
9780763628802: The Dream Merchant (Works in Translation)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0763628808 ISBN 13: 9780763628802
Verlag: Candlewick Pr, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Having been called upon by an international corporation to perform a special task for them, Josh suddenly finds himself swept away on a high-stakes adventure that leads him to the heart of imagination with no idea how to break free from the lack of reality in which he now finds himself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ISABEL HOVING was born in Amsterdam. She began her career as a secondary-school teacher, during which time she became very active in the Dutch women's movement. She eventually gave up her job to study literary theory full-time and spent some months in Senegal, West Africa, for a research project — an experience that gave her a completely different perspective on the world and that she describes as a turning point in her life. Now a lecturer at Leiden University, Isabel Hoving lives with her partner and son in Amsterdam.


HESTER VELMANS has translated a number of novels from Dutch into English, including THE LILY THEATER by Lulu Wand and Renate Dorrestein's A HEART OF STONE, which won the Vondel Prize for Dutch Translation. In addition, she has contributed to her parents' wartime memoirs - EDITH'S STORY by Edith Velmans and LONG WAY BACK TO THE RIVER KWAI by Loet Velmans — and has written a children's novel, ISABEL OF THE WHALES.

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Gadgets. It was all because he loved gadgets. When he looked back later on, Josh decided that was how it had started. Which wasn't far wrong: if he hadn't been so intrigued, Josh would have slammed the door in their faces right from the start, and the probably nothing would have happened. Why did they have to pick on him, of all people, to be the hero of their lousy adventures? He was just an ordinary boy — expect for four things.

Four things. First, he was a collector, and quite a good one. He knew exactly how to organize all his stuff so he could find things easily, and so his parents didn't want to dump it all in the dustbin every few months. Mostly he collected useful things, like solar torches that also worked as a compass, whistle and penknife; but he also had shelves piled high with rusty bits of metal, skulls and skeletons, bunches of locks, picklocks and keys, computer games that no longer worked, and all sorts of tools and electrical devices. Second, he could fall asleep wherever and whenever he wanted. Third, he could always remember his dreams. Which could be a pain, especially when it was a nightmare, and then he'd go around all day with a sinking feeling there was something after him. And fourth: he was a thief.

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DREAM MERCHANT by Isabel Hoving. Translated by Hester Velmans. Copyright (c) 2005 by Isabel Hoving. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

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Verlag
Candlewick Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0763628808
ISBN 13 
9780763628802
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Anzahl der Seiten
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