Nostalgy
By Miguel Wandenbergh
Publisher: WandenBergh Editions
Published: December 26, 2025
ISBN: 9798232306274
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Beautiful evocative novel about nostalgia, memories, and the desire to go home again
Nostalgy follows a man who returns to the landscapes and memories that shaped his life, searching for meaning in the quiet spaces between past and present. As he revisits old relationships, unresolved emotions, and the moments that once defined him, he confronts the distance between who he was and who he has become. Through a delicate blend of introspection, atmosphere, and emotional depth, the novel explores how memory can both illuminate and distort, and how the act of looking back can transform the way we move forward.
Spoilers: Nostalgia is a difficult psychological trap to fall into. It captures memories with a positive filter. It emphasizes good times and down plays sadness. It ignores that those good times weren’t shared by everyone. It changes pop culture touchstones from irritating fads and sources of cringe to gold standards beyond criticism.
About the Author
Miguel Wandenbergh is also translator of Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, finalist to the 1996 Noma Prize for “El grito silencioso” from the Japanese, and two other novels by the same author. Has also translated Yukio Mishima’s Sea of Fertility tetralogy, and is waiting for the time to publish his direct translations from the Japanese.
Born in Spain in 1956, he is retiring from his main profession after working for Philips Nederland, AT&T, The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Allied Signal, Yakult Nederland and AMES Sintering, and will dedicate himself to literature and music for the rest of his life.
Miguel has an outstanding command of Spanish, English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Japanese, and reads Korean and Chinese. He is also a motorcycle and car buff, still plays tennis at competition level, and is now living in Castellón, Spain.
