Markus Zusak The book thief

In 1939 komt de 9-jarige Liesel bij pleegouders terecht van wie ze leert lezen. Boeken worden heel belangrijk voor Liesel. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 553 pagina's | Black Swan, [London] | 2014

Gedrukt boek

Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.

novel

Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...

Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

E-book

Bas Steman Morgan

my love; a novel

'Deeply moving! Many people will be touched by this story.' Adriaan van Dis, international bestselling author. A small town in Wales in 2006. Betrys, now in her late eighties, still longs for Morgan, the love of her life who perished during Operation Market Garden, as the Second World War was winding to a close. A Dutch writer inadvertently gets caught up in this story from long ago, in a way he could have never imagined. Based on a fascinating true story, Morgan, My Love is a surprising, romantic...

Fictie

Engels | 283 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book

Simon Hammelburg Broken on the inside

the war never ended

WWII did not end in 1945 when the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust were released from the concentration camps or came out of their hiding places. Often no longer welcome in their former homes they were forced to leave behind, stripped of their belongings and dignity, they had to move on regardless. Their children suffered too, as there was always fear, anxiety and sadness about countless relatives that were killed during this unrivalled genocide. Simon Hammelburg compiled the accounts of...

Fictie

Engels | 274 pagina's (PDF, 0,5 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018

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