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* Harry Mulisch's The Assault was an international bestseller which was made into an Oscar Award-winning film. This magnificent epic has been compared to works by Umberto Eco, Thomas Mann, and Dostoevsky. Harry Mulisch's magnum opus is a rich mosaic of twentieth-century trauma in which many themes--friendship, loyalty, family, art, technology, religion, fate, good, and evil--suffuse a suspenseful and resplendent... (more)

The Twins

by Tessa de Loo

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 arthritis—the women are twins, separated in childhood by the death of their parents. Anna stayed in their native Germany,... (more)

De zwarte met het witte hartArthur Japin

De zwarte met het witte hart

by Arthur Japin

Text: Dutch

Love Life

by Ray Kluun

Dan and Carmen have it all, it seems: They are young, rich, good-looking, satisfied in their work and love life, and are the parents of a beautiful three-year-old daughter. When Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer, Dan is unable to cope with her illness and the changes this brings to their happy, yuppie family life. While the beautiful and optimistic Carmen submits to chemotherapy and eventually a mastectomy,... (more)

TirzaArnon Grunberg

Tirza

by Arnon Grunberg

I Jan Cremer

by Jan (Introduction By Krim, Seymour) Cremer

de Mensheid Zij Geprezen: Lof Der Zotheid 2001Arnon Grunberg

de Mensheid Zij Geprezen: Lof Der Zotheid 2001

by Arnon Grunberg

Joe Speedboat

by Tommy Wieringa

De donkere kamer van Damocles.

by Willem Frederik Hermans

Text: Dutch

Nescio, De uitvreter, Titaantjes, Dichtertje (Memoreeks)Anna Juffer

Nescio, De uitvreter, Titaantjes, Dichtertje (Memoreeks)

by Anna Juffer

Text: Dutch

Want dit is mijn lichaamRenate Dorrestein

Want dit is mijn lichaam

by Renate Dorrestein

Text: Dutch

Oeroeg

All Souls' Day

by Cees Nooteboom, Susan Massotty

A brilliant new novel-evocative and philosophical, poetic and passionate.A Dutch documentary filmmaker finds himself in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century, trying to make sense of his own past in a city where every stone bears traces of history. Having lost his wife and child in an airplane crash, he is still coming to terms with the grief, trying to build a new life amid a group of cosmopolitan,... (more)

Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

In the Dutch Language. English translation of title: "The Diary of Anne Frank"

Max Havelaar

by Multatuli

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in his own downfall. In Max Havelaar, Multatuli (the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker) vividly recreated his own... (more)

Blauwe maandagenArnon Grunberg

Blauwe maandagen

by Arnon Grunberg

Text: Dutch

The Praise of Folly

by Desiderius Erasmus

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates... (more)

Het leven uit een dagA. F. Th. van der Heijden

Het leven uit een dag

by A. F. Th. van der Heijden

Text: Dutch

Advocaat van de hanen (De tandeloze tijd)A. F. Th. van der Heijden

Advocaat van de hanen (De tandeloze tijd)

by A. F. Th. van der Heijden

Text: Dutch

The Lily Theater: A Novel

by Lulu Wang

The Lily Theater is a strikingly original debut novel-an international literary sensation-based on the author's experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. When twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no one imagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her mother are some of China's greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young... (more)

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Tags: dutch literature

by Harry Mulisch

by Tessa de Loo

by Arthur Japin

by Ray Kluun

by Arnon Grunberg

by Jan (Introduction By Krim, Seymour) Cremer

by Arnon Grunberg

by Tommy Wieringa

by Willem Frederik Hermans

by Anna Juffer

by Renate Dorrestein

by Cees Nooteboom, Susan Massotty

by Anne Frank

by Multatuli

by Arnon Grunberg

by Desiderius Erasmus

by A. F. Th. van der Heijden

by A. F. Th. van der Heijden

by Lulu Wang