{"id":28340,"date":"2017-05-15T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=28340"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:40:21","slug":"koen-peeters-the-people-healer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/koen-peeters\/koen-peeters-the-people-healer\/","title":{"rendered":"Koen Peeters &#8211; The People Healer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0Rights sold<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Perseus (Bulgaria)<\/li>\n<li>Osburg Verlag (Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Read a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/koen-peeters\/koen-peeters-the-people-healer\/sample-translation-the-people-healer\/\">sample translation<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>The People Healer<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>The young Remi, predestined to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps as a farmer, is pursued by irrepressible dreams and voices. His uncle whispers strange, fiercely moving stories to him about the war, about a ghost and about a black soldier. When Remi announces that he has a vocation and is to enter a strict order of monks, no one can understand him. In the monastery his personality is redrawn: he meditates and studies doggedly, estranging still more of his family and searching for quiet within himself. But the daemon inside will not be silenced.<\/p>\n<p>The old stories push Remi to the heart of Africa. He chases ever further until he meets the nganga, a healer, in Kwango who helps him get to know his daemon.<\/p>\n<p><em>The People Healer<\/em> won the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookspotliteratuurprijs.nl\/editie-2017\/\">ECI Literature Prize<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Rights sold Perseus (Bulgaria) Osburg Verlag (Germany) Read a\u00a0sample translation\u00a0of\u00a0The People Healer &nbsp; About the book The young Remi, predestined to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps as a farmer, is pursued by irrepressible dreams and voices. His uncle whispers strange, fiercely moving stories to him about the war, about a ghost and about a black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":28341,"parent":28338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28340","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28340\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/28341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}