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Historical and human perspectives clash in this cool, compassionate, psychological novel that unfolds around the chance meeting of two elderly women at a Belgian health resort. Each woman has come for the famously curative waters, but it is no coincidence that both suffer from debilitating... read more

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against in a peat bath at forty degrees Celsius. A heart attack was lurking in the brown sludge, between the lumps and granules and half-decayed twigs that drifted about.

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This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

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  1. Tessa de Loo (Author)

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Original Language: German
Publisher: Btb
Country: Netherlands
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 344272161X
Page Count: 477

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