PRAISE FOR WHAT'S MINE "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 "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 "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 "The shifting perspectives give this surprising, absurdist novel a cinematic character, but what stays with you is the way small events find their place in the larger story." --Tzum "Surprising." --Nederlands Dagblad "With subtlety and humor WHAT'S MINE addresses how confusing justice and property can be." --Argos "Full of accessibility, lightness and humor.

Are you on Luis' side or William's side? Adriaanse leaves the answer almost entirely to the reader. A special book." --Hebban.