I found out that the best selling book of the year in my country has also been translated and published in 28 countries all over the world. So I thought perhaps I can share the titles and the writers name with you all.
The book is written by Ray Kluun.
These little images are also found on this webpage:
http://www.kluun.nl/lees.php?i=1 - and they are clickable, you find a bigger image there, where you can read the title in your own language:
This is what they said about the book Love Life
on Amazon.com
Daily Mail
'a portrait of love, flawed, painful and yet true, as it is in
real life.'
Product Description
Dan and Carmen are hip, healthy and wealthy. They have their own companies, plenty of money and friends and are the proud parents of one year-old Luna...They live the cool life in Amsterdam, until beautiful and optimistic Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer. With that their world transforms into a roller-coaster ride of doctors and hospitals. As his way of coping, the hedonistic Dan faithfully accompanies Carmen to her chemo and radiotherapy treatments, but spends his nocturnal hours crazily immersed in the nightlife and women of Amsterdam and Miami. "Love Life" is the account of a relationship and a terminal illness, devoid of fake sentiment and told with humour and deep humanity. And it is very much an ode to love. 'A wonderful novel about courage, helplessness and real love' - "Cosmopolitan Germany".
The second book by Kluun is The Widower
Product Description
Following his wife Carmen's funeral, chronicled so movingly in "Love Life", Dan tries to pick up the pieces. He is now the sole parent of little Luna. But inevitably in his grief he goes right off the rails. His friends worry for him and for Luna, and Rose finds it difficult to reconnect with him. His hedonism becomes self-destructive and he deep down he knows it's better to have Luna stay with friends than for her to witness his decline.He sells his share of the business to his partner and goes on a drug-addled holiday to Ibiza, where he witnesses 9/11. His relationship with Rose is virtually over, though she can never quite bring herself to abandon him completely. Dan reaches rock bottom and realises he can't go on like this. His friends advise him to go on a long trip, taking Luna with him, and to try and take stock of his life. He decides to take Luna to Australia, via Bali and Thailand. There as they travel across the continent they begin to tentatively establish a relationship - a new relationship - and Dan finally comes to realise what it is he wants and needs in his life.
About the Author
Ray Kluun (Kluun to his friends) was a marketing man in a previous life. In 2001 he lost his 36-year-old wife to cancer. Kluun took his daughter Eva (then three years old) to Australia and wrote Love Life (2006), which became a massive word-of-mouth bestseller in Europe, selling 750,000 copies.
