1991, ISBN: 0370313976

[EAN: 9780370313979], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Bodley Head], GAYS - NETHERLANDS FICTION; WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 FICTION, Jacket, 261 pp. During the winter famine of 1944 in occupi… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780370313979], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Bodley Head], GAYS - NETHERLANDS FICTION; WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 FICTION, Jacket, 261 pp. During 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. Disorientated by the strict Calvinist outlook of his adoptive parents, he befriends Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the liberating forces. 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. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. 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. It is by turns a lament and a celebration, clear-eyed, honest and moving., Books<

1991, ISBN: 9780370313979

Hard cover, Fine in fine dust jacket., Gays-Netherlands-Fiction|World War, 1939-1945-Netherlands-Fiction, During the winter famine of 1944 in occupied Amsterdam, 11 year old Jeroen is eva… Mehr…

Hard cover, Fine in fine dust jacket., Gays-Netherlands-Fiction|World War, 1939-1945-Netherlands-Fiction, During 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. Disorientated by the strict Calvinist outlook of his adoptive parents, he befriends Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the liberating forces. 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. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. 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. It is by turns a lament and a celebration, clear-eyed, honest and moving., London, [PU: The Bodley Head]<