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A Beautiful Young Wife review – dissection of the male heart
Dutch writer Tommy Wieringa’s often excruciatingly honest prose brilliantly conveys the break-up of a relationship
Tommy Wieringa: ‘absolute narrative authority.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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Y ou know you’re in the presence of properly great fiction writing when you forget to question a single word of it. “This happened,” the author declares – and that’s it, you’re there, the book in your hand suddenly so much more urgent and alive than the world around you. Absolute narrative authority is a rare commodity, hard to unwrap and (I would argue) near impossible to teach. So what a joy to stumble across it here – along with prose of such exquisite precision and intensity – in this Dutch writer ’s sixth novel.
Edward is a virologist, an eminent one, having made his name with an Aids breakthrough in the 1980s and then moving with a neat kind of serendipity straight into avian flu. At 42, he has everything a man could want, except for a mate. So when a traffic-stoppingly beautiful blonde comes cycling down the street, it feels as sweetly inevitable as his high-flying (sorry) career in bird flu. Still, he can’t quite believe his luck when Ruth – 15 years his junior – seems to fall for him too. And though her father extends a less than warm welcome – “I had hoped that she would take care of me some day, but the way things look now, it’ll be your wheelchair she’s pushing”– pretty soon the two are married.
The chinks in the marital armour appear slowly, but with a doom-laden rhythm, as if a part of Edward has always sensed his luck couldn’t last. At a medical conference in Aspen, Ruth is bowled over by the mountain views but wry about the GlaxoSmithKline sponsorship, harping on yet again about her vegetarianism, while Edward silently mourns the scaloppine and lamb chops that have one by one “vanished from his repertoire”. Meanwhile, back at home the arguments about capitalism and “the closely knit interests of science and industry” continue. As his Beautiful Young Wife pins Bentham texts to the bathroom wall and accuses him of neglecting to imagine the pain he inflicts on his ferrets, Edward finds himself drawn “like water to the lowest point” to a work colleague and slides into an affair. And then, just as the marriage seems at breaking point, he and Ruth do the inevitable: they decide to try for a baby.
Given the novel’s length (a mere 128 pages of such power that I can’t quite bring myself to call it a novella), I’m disinclined to reveal more. But what follows is an examination of the ageing male heart – a dissection as subtle and tender as it is, ultimately, unnerving. For this is a wonderfully disconcerting piece of work which, on a second and even a third reading, only seems to grow more expansive and multifaceted while managing at the same time to remain mysterious and tightly furled.
The stuff of virology is robustly well drawn, all of it crucial and convincing. Seemingly minor characters creep up on you. Ruth’s feckless sponger of a brother who doesn’t inoculate his five-year-old son because “he has the right to go through the childhood illnesses” is a comic portrayal that strikes a bleak chill into your bones, but ends up earning its narrative keep in a way that is as apt as it is startling.
Meanwhile, the evocations of sex, bodies, appetites and desires are reminiscent of Updike at his very best: driving back from hospital with your baby and feeling “as frightened and indomitable as a teenage couple in a stolen car”; those early, shocking days of new parenthood with its “happiness delicate as gold wire”. It’s a real credit to the near-invisibility of Sam Garrett’s translation that only the Dutch surnames serve to jolt you back now and then to the Netherlands.
Ultimately, though, it’s Wieringa’s relentless, sometimes excruciating honesty that resonates. It will be a long time before I forget the description of Edward “trying not to groan” as he squats to pick up the cap of the toothpaste tube because he knows that if he bends from the waist “his belly and breasts seemed to separate from his frame and dangle in shapeless pleats”. If one of the purposes of fiction is to show us ourselves, Wieringa’s mirror is polished to perfection.
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