{"id":39637,"date":"2022-01-13T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=39637"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:00:33","slug":"mathijs-deen-the-boundless-river","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/mathijs-deen\/mathijs-deen-the-boundless-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathijs Deen &#8211; The Boundless River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rights sold<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MacLehose Press (World English)<\/li>\n<li>Iperborea (Italy)<\/li>\n<li>Knesebeck Verlag (Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/mathijs-deen\/mathijs-deen-the-boundless-river\/sample-translation-the-boundless-river\/\">sample translation<\/a> of <em>The Boundless River<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>In <em>The Boundless River <\/em>Mathijs Deen brings the reader, as he did in his acclaimed books <em>The Wadden Islands <\/em>and <em>Down Old Roads<\/em>, into his unique world: the grey zone between fact and fiction, knowledge and imagination. \u2018Imagine the river is a character, then she\u2019ll have a birth and death as well. Tell me how she was born.\u2019 That is the question Deen asks a geologist one sunny day in September. The answer that follows is the start of a journey that will carry the reader from a time far before we ever spoke of a European continent to the current day, in which skippers still see the Rhine as a living being, a person. <em>\u00a0<\/em>Meandering from the mighty hippos that once grazed on the river\u2019s banks millions of years ago to the exhausted salmon that saw their habitat slowly change, from the girl from ancient Steinheim to the Roman general Corbulo, to the young Goethe and the North Sea fisherman Kommer Tanis \u2013 Deen shows how, since the beginning of time, the river has connected and divided, terrified, consoled, sustained and engulfed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights sold MacLehose Press (World English) Iperborea (Italy) Knesebeck Verlag (Germany) Read our sample translation of The Boundless River About the book In The Boundless River Mathijs Deen brings the reader, as he did in his acclaimed books The Wadden Islands and Down Old Roads, into his unique world: the grey zone between fact and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3251,"featured_media":39641,"parent":24789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39637","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39637","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\/3251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39637\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/39641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}