![]() Personally, I like books that challenge what you think, especially if they are done in a thought provoking way rather than sensationalizing the subject. It is by turns a lament and a celebration, clear-eyed, honest and moving. Played out against the background of a country reawakening from the war, Rudi Van Dantzig`s novel is about a boy discovering the possibilities within himself, the anxiety this brings and the veiled sorrow of separation. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. ![]() Their relationship immerses the young boy in a tumultuous world of emotional and sexual experience, suddenly curtailed when the Allies move on and Walt goes away. Disorientated by the strict Calvinist outlook of his adoptive parents, he befriends Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the liberating forces. ![]() I haven t read the book so I cant comment on it`s contents but the blurb describes it as:ĭuring the winter famine of 1944 in occupied Amsterdam, 11 year old Jeroen is evacuated to a tiny fishing community on the desolate coast of Friesland. ![]() ![]() I`d agree with that absolutely if there were no other copies on here but there is the paperback. ![]()
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