J. Bernlef

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• Buiten is het maandag

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  Libris 2004 · Shortlist

  Buiten is het maandag

  AITitle translated by AI:“Outside It Is Monday”

  J. Bernlef · 66 when first published

  Novel · 214 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Widowed in a car crash he survived unconscious, an ageing Dutchman learns that his son has vanished and been glimpsed in Nova Scotia, and he crosses the ocean to look for him.

• Boy

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  Libris 2001 · Shortlist

  Boy

  J. Bernlef · 63 when first published

  Novel · 317 pages · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:America, early 1900s: a silent-film actress is found murdered and a deaf, mute youth discovered hiding in her room is convicted; a young newspaper reporter begins digging into who this 'Boy' really was.