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A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Born 1951 · Netherlands

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Libris 2012 · Winner

    Tonio: A Requiem Memoir

    Tonio

    A.F.Th. van der Heijden · 60 when first published

    Novel · 535 pages · Autofiction, Family

    AI-generated summary:Early on Whit Sunday, police wake a writer and his wife in Amsterdam: their only son, aged twenty-one, has been hit by a car. In the months after his death the father tries to reconstruct his last hours.