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Yolanda Entius – The Cabinet of the Staal Family‘So brilliant that the reader has to gasp for air from time to time.’– de Volkskrant ****Kobe has worked hard all his life. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t gamble and he doesn’t visitprostitutes. These are the facts and Kobe think this is the only thing that matters. He sticks tothings you can fixate or count like snapshots or the contents of your wallet.His youngest daughter Mees doesn’t believe much in these facts. Numbers and picturescapturing the Truth and the strict distinction between fact and fiction. She doesn’t know thistruth and she doesn’t know the truth about her family, because nothing is said about it. Andsince the things you can’t talk about leave much room for speculation, she does just that.Rights sold to:Turkey, GalataNominated for:The Halewijn Prize 2011ENGLISH SAMPLETRANSLATION AVAILABLEWhat happened when her little brother died and why did her older sister suddenly leave thehouse? Why is mother still trying to scare her? ‘You have no idea what your father is capableof doing’, she warns her. No, Mees has no idea, but her imagination is gradually fading allboundaries.At age 41, when Mees has to make an important decision, it is time to end all speculationsabout her family. She visits Luuk who lives in the mountains. Perhaps he can help her unravelall the family mysteries. Yolanda Entius shows with love, humor and precision how a familyfalls apart when there is no room to talk, whisper or even think about the sore spots of life.‘The Cabinet of the Staal Family is a beautiful, emotional novel about the inabilities of both children and parents.’ - Elsevier‘Entius proved in her previous novels that she can create an atmosphere of tension and frustration without using many wordsand naming things too directly.’ – Noordhollands Dagblad *****‘From the start it is obvious that she stands above the story. This isn’t confessional literature or therapy prose. The tone ishard and straight.’ – NRC Handelsblad‘Brief, loud and clearly well timed, convinced of the power of words.’ - TrouwAuthor: Yolanda EntiusTitle: The Cabinet of the Staal Family (fiction)Original title: Het kabinet van de familie StaalPublished: 2011Size: 208 pages / 61.000 words