Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean

"The Life Everlasting of Doäna Lisa is a hard-boiled, minimalist, postmodern novel about perennial problems of postcolonialism. This is a tale of a failed attempt to escape Trinta di Mei, the postcolonial revolt of May 30, 1969, in Curaðcao. Edgar Raven, the central character, makes a consequential choice, to abandon Curaðcao temporarily during Trinta di Mei, bringing with him his two closest friends, for a "little vacation" to Venezuela to buy a new fishing boat. This choice unleashes an avalanche of consequences described in a narrative style that seems like a digressive festival of ideas and philosophies, intellectual duets and arias stitched together with the clipped and brutal realism of the narration. Originally written in Dutch, the novel is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, and for readers of fiction in general"--