Shocked Earth
Translated from Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.
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- Paperback published on 17/05/2022
- Page count: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9781912235681
Synopsis
Femke, her mother Trijn and her grandfather have very different ideas about how to run their family farm. Tensions between mother and daughter are growing; Femke wants to switch to sustainable growing principles, while her mother considers this an attack on tradition. To make matters worse, their home province of Groningen is experiencing a series of earthquakes caused by a gas extraction operation near their farm. While the cracks and splinters in their farmhouse increase, the authorities and the state-owned gas company refuse to offer the local farming community any help. In Shocked Earth, Saskia Goldschmidt investigates what it means to have your identity intensely entwined with your place of birth and your principles at odds with your closest kin. And how to keep standing when the world as you know it is slowly falling apart.
About the author
Shocked Earth is a translation of Saskia Goldschmidt’s novel Schokland, first published in Dutch in 2018. As Goldschmidt makes clear in her acknowledgements, the book is absolutely rooted in the landscape she so lyrically describes. The research she carried out in preparation for the writing of the novel was based not only on textual, audio-visual and internet sources, but also on intense lived experience.
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