La Superba. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

"An ode to the imagination."—[i]NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, [i]La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed «La Superba.»[b]Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. 1968), poet, dramatist, novelist, renowned in the Netherlands as a master of language, is the only two-time winner of the Tzum Prize for «the most beautiful sentence written in Dutch» (including one in [i]La Superba!).