The graft

Rixt grows up at the end of the world, in a house that backs up to the sea wall and looks out over the parcelled fields and vast meadows. Everything is straight, the furrows in the fields, the roads, the waterways, but also the people who live there. Nothing and no one ever seems to doubt their destiny. Rixt, now a student at an art academy in the south of the country, returns home with a mission. She wants to ask her father to feature in one of her art projects.
During the long journey to the north and the stay in her parents' home, memories come to Rixt that make her realize that it is her imagination that has offered her a way out.
With her subtle pen, Jannie Regnerus manages to sketch the oppression of the vast landscape and make it palpable. In the jury report of the Bob den Uyl Prize, she was previously compared to Haruki Murakami.