I Will Come Back to This
Publisher: Atlas Contact
Winner of the Libris Literature Award 2024
Journalist Rob Hollander is invited by his former fellow student Icks to visit him in Los Angeles. There, Icks offers him the opportunity to right past wrongs by traveling back in time. In the trip Hollander subsequently finds himself in, a major role is played by a childhood incident that had profound consequences, and a reunion with some fellow students casts a new light on everything. Is life a one-way trip or can you travel back every now and then to repair something?
I Will Come Back to This is a compelling and surprising novel in which everything is interconnected. As in his previous and repeatedly award winning-books, Van Essen successfully mixes everyday reality with the unexpected and the impossible in a novel about appearances, the burden of the past and the need to be part of a larger whole.
Praise:
‘Resounding writing that roars. Heartbreaking and technically perfect.’ – De Groene Amsterdammer
‘His work reminds one of that of Murakami and Paul Auster’ – Trouw
