Odessa Star
In his fourth novel, Herman Koch presents his own twisted take on a familiar plotline: the protagonist Fred Moorman, stranded in a meaningless job and a joyless marriage, is anything but a pitiful victim. He is an unscrupulous man who doesn’t think twice about calling in a hardened criminal to rid him of the bane of his life: an elderly lady tenant who is hogging the garden with her foul-smelling dog. He has no qualms about enlisting the services of disorganised crime to sort out his layabout brother-in-law. But crime and amateurism are often a disastrous mix.
Odessa Star, named after the city Fred regards as the pinnacle of underworld chic, features moments of riotous comedy. Koch displays perfect timing and shows himself to be a master at describing absurd trains of thought and scenes of pure slapstick.
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Herman Koch
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
Koch was born in Arnhem, and later moved to Amsterdam. He studied Russian for some months, and lived in Finland for a while. Nowadays he is married to the Spanish Amalia, and has a son, Pablo (1994).
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