{"id":28461,"date":"2017-06-07T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=28461"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:10:07","slug":"erwin-mortier-while-the-gods-were-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/erwin-mortier\/erwin-mortier-while-the-gods-were-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Erwin Mortier &#8211; While the Gods Were Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/sample-translation-while-the-gods-were-sleeping\/\">sample translation<\/a> of\u00a0<em>While the Gods Were Sleeping<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Rights sold<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00a0Pushkin Press (UK)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fayard (France)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acantilado (Spain)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>DuMont (Germany)\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Alakarga (Turkey)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>Sensing death\u2019s approach, an old woman looks back on her childhood, her loves, her marriage and the years during the First World War that she spent in France with her mother and brother. What gradually arises is an intimate panorama of Belgium. With no desire to emphasize one event more than another, she longs for an endless sentence \u201cthat absorbs everything there is, like a lady-in-waiting from the days of wigs, an armada of pearls capsizing in her locks, lifting her countless skirts as she climbs the stairs at the opera \u2013 or the rungs to the gallows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>While the Gods Were Sleeping<\/em>, Erwin Mortier\u2019s fifth novel, takes place at the intersection of history\u2019s great events and the little lives of humans, the meeting place between language and the world, imagination and reality, between the writing of history and narrative prose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read our sample translation of\u00a0While the Gods Were Sleeping Rights sold \u00a0Pushkin Press (UK) Fayard (France) Acantilado (Spain) DuMont (Germany)\u00a0 Alakarga (Turkey) &nbsp; About the book Sensing death\u2019s approach, an old woman looks back on her childhood, her loves, her marriage and the years during the First World War that she spent in France with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":28465,"parent":17503,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28461","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28461","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=28461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28461\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/28465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}