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AUTHOR

‘It’s about a small community, and a narrow-mindedness that gets disrupted by external factors. A small annoyance that grows into something insurmountable. The atmosphere in a book is important to me, I have lived in such a small village myself and that, of course, influenced me when I wrote the novel. And I like to use characters that are a bit over the top.’

TRANSLATOR

´The absurd notion of a wind turbine igniting a comedy of unfettered bloodletting was, for this big-city American, a delightful peek into the mentality of small-town Flanders. While a translator of humor might be tempted to lay it on extra thick, the author eases the job by making each character credible and crazy at the same time. The story’s modern elements—a strapping African immigrant and a teenager trawling internet sex sites—were fun to juxtapose against the buttoned-up spite of the more traditional villagers, allowing a wide range of dialogue.´

PUBLISHER

‘In Sleepless Summer Bram Dehouck combines his talent for suspense as a thriller writer with his ability to create psychologically accomplished characters. And I just love his fine, dark sense of humor.’