Elsewhere
Publisher: Atlas Contact
It’s night. While her daughter is sleeping upstairs, a lady sits in her new house surrounded by thirteen boxes and two small leather suitcases that carry the ‘archive’ of her life. During twenty years she has lived in eight different countries and nine cities. In the night ahead she comes to terms with her destiny: to settle somewhere for good. In the time she spends sitting there, the boxes stare at her. She only opens a couple. She pulls out a Norwegian jumper belonging to an old lover that sparks a flood of memories and confronts her with the choices she made in her life and everything she left behind at the time.
Elsewhere is a novel about being a single mother, being a woman and really feeling at home somewhere.
‘Lazaroms writes about feeling at home and uprooted in [a] surprisingly rich and layered novel.’ – Trouw
‘Powerful and subtle novel. […] Here and there a wonderful blending of memory and reality. […] Lazaroms ingeniously plays with the creation of the novel. […] The novel reads particularly smoothly, which shows hard work. Every sentence is loaded, every word considered. The result is a tender narrative in which everything falls into place. •••••’ – NRC Handelsblad
‘With Elsewhere, Lazaroms has written an understated but deeply felt memoir.’ – Het Parool
‘Elsewhere is a delicate novella about feeling at home somewhere, about intense loneliness, single motherhood, womanhood and writing. An engagingly understated story that will touch many readers’ hearts.’ – Boekenkrant
