Shadow Child

Rights sold around the world in: USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Rumania, Portugal, Croatia and Korea An international bestseller in Holland and Germany P. F. Thomese is a prize-winning Dutch writer longlisted for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

"Shadow Child" presents an examination of the grief of a father over the death of his baby daughter."Shadow Child" is the heartbreaking story of a father's love for his child. After his little girl dies in infancy, P. F. Thomese finds himself in deathly silent rooms, desperately seeking the words to express his desolation. His only hope is to write truly, without sentimentality, to learn to speak again. 'If she still exists anywhere, then it's in language.' As he looks back, describing and reliving snapshots of memory, Thomese struggles to find meaning in a life that has been devastated. It is a breathtaking tribute to a deceased daughter, an expression of love, an elegy, and ultimately a declaration of hope.