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Libris 2001 · Shortlist
Het gemaal
Title translated by AI:“The Pumping Station”
Frank Noë · 41 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · War, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In wartime Holland, nineteen-year-old Willie Hoppe and his elder brother Steven volunteer for labour in the polder, digging drainage channels through mud and clay.