The Days of Bluegrass Love, Edward van de Vendel
The Days of Bluegrass Love, Edward van de Vendel
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The Days of Bluegrass Love

Author: Edward van de Vendel

Narrator: Tom Picasso

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it – school, friends, girls, plans for the future – just kind of . happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn't direct.

So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway.

And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his.

The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers – a tender, intense, unforgettable story of first love.

About Edward Van De Vendel

Edward van de Vendel has been a school principal, founder, and teacher. He has won many of the highest prizes for children's literature in the Netherlands, including the Golden Kiss and the Silver Pencil. He lives in Rotterdam and travels widely.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke on June 22, 2022

The Days of Bluegrass Love is a Dutch queer YA book about two boys falling in love and I didn’t know it. Until I suddenly saw its English translation. So stupid. How was I, as a Dutch, not aware of this story? It’s incredibly sweet and simple and short. Not much is going on. Just two eighteen-year-ol......more

Goodreads review by Inga on April 01, 2022

"Viņš jutās bagātāks, bet vienlaikus arī kā idiots" (34. lpp). Izrāvu grāmatu 3 piegājienos. Varbūt liktu 4 zvaigznes, bet, ja grāmata izlasās 2 dienās, tas pasaka diezgan daudz. Tādām grāmatām vienmēr gribas likt 5 zvaigznes - par to, ka ierauj vienkārši. Un tās pirmās mīlestības tirpas tur tiešām......more

Goodreads review by māris on June 06, 2023

Lielam un mazam . Tā arī vasara pārskrien pāri ar vieglu vēju matos un smilgās, tikai, lai atstātu tur, kur sāki, bet vai viss ir tāpat ? Nē.......more

Goodreads review by Arvis on June 23, 2020

Stāsts, kurš nepārsaldinātā veidā nosauc vārdā to, pēc kā cilvēks tiecas augu mužu. Pat, ja pēc vasaras nāk asaras.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 13, 2023

This is a young adult novel, very tenderly written, in which Tycho and Oliver encounter one another on the way to an international camp in Tennessee. They are immediately overtaken by each other and fall into a relationship that is quickly and quietly physical. To Tycho, whom we inhabit during the r......more