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"""What's Mine is a surprising and deep work with a persistent quiet momentum carrying the reader back-and-forth in time and space across the slivers of four interlocking lives. It is totally engaging."" --Brian Eno, musician ""Bette Adriaanse is becoming a major literary novelist in the best European tradition. She has the down-and-out life experiences of the early Orwell, the desperate humor of Flann O'Brien, the prose immediacy of Beckett, and the avalanche of bureaucracy of Kafka. What's Mine is a stellar achievement of depicting the absurdist brutality of contemporary urban capitalism where nothing but narcissism and arbitrary outcomes rule."" --Alan N Shapiro ""Bette Adriaanse is my favourite Dutch writer. No one writes like she does. Her voice-- frank, whimsical, philosophical, funny, gorgeously tactless-- points a lens at the world that sharpens everything, then she plays with the focus, then resharpens it so the world never looks quite the same. What's Mine is a timeless book that deserves a wide readership.' --Caoilinn Hughes, author of Orchid & the Wasp, winner of the Collyer Bristow Prize, Dalker Literary Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021 and the O. Henry award ""Bette's inimitable voice is always a treat to escape into. I cannot wait for this dark, absurdist tale to go out into the world."" --Jing-Jing Lee author of How We Disappeared, selected for the British Royal Big Jubilee Read"

What's Mine is a surprising and deep work with a persistent quiet momentum carrying the reader back-and-forth in time and space across the slivers of four interlocking lives. It is totally engaging. --Brian Eno, musician Bette Adriaanse is becoming a major literary novelist in the best European tradition. She has the down-and-out life experiences of the early Orwell, the desperate humor of Flann O'Brien, the prose immediacy of Beckett, and the avalanche of bureaucracy of Kafka. What's Mine is a stellar achievement of depicting the absurdist brutality of contemporary urban capitalism where nothing but narcissism and arbitrary outcomes rule. --Alan N Shapiro Bette Adriaanse is my favourite Dutch writer. No one writes like she does. Her voice-- frank, whimsical, philosophical, funny, gorgeously tactless-- points a lens at the world that sharpens everything, then she plays with the focus, then resharpens it so the world never looks quite the same. What's Mine is a timeless book that deserves a wide readership.' --Caoilinn Hughes, author of Orchid & the Wasp, winner of the Collyer Bristow Prize, Dalker Literary Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021 and the O. Henry award Bette's inimitable voice is always a treat to escape into. I cannot wait for this dark, absurdist tale to go out into the world. --Jing-Jing Lee author of How We Disappeared, selected for the British Royal Big Jubilee Read

"""Bette Adriaanse is becoming a major literary novelist in the best European tradition. She has the down-and-out life experiences of the early Orwell, the desperate humor of Flann O'Brien, the prose immediacy of Beckett, and the avalanche of bureaucracy of Kafka. What's Mine is a stellar achievement of depicting the absurdist brutality of contemporary urban capitalism where nothing but narcissism and arbitrary outcomes rule."" --Alan N Shapiro, science fiction theorist ""Bette's inimitable voice is always a treat to escape into. I cannot wait for this dark, absurdist tale to go out into the world."" --Jing-Jing Lee author of How We Disappeared, selected for the British Royal Big Jubilee Read ""Bette Adriaanse is my favourite Dutch writer. No one writes like she does. Her voice-- frank, whimsical, philosophical, funny, gorgeously tactless-- points a lens at the world that sharpens everything, then she plays with the focus, then resharpens it so the world never looks quite the same. What's Mine is a timeless book that deserves a wide readership."" --Caoilinn Hughes, author of Orchid & the Wasp, winner of the Collyer Bristow Prize, Dalker Literary Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021 and the O. Henry award"

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Bette Adriaanse is a writer and a visual artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1984. Bette graduated from the Image & Language department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2008 and received her Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford University in 2010.

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