Lit in Translation

Joost de Vries

Born 1983 · Netherlands

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    Hogere machten

    Title translated by AI:“Higher Powers”

    Joost de Vries · 41 when first published

    Novel · 319 pages · Love, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In the 1930s James Welmoed, a calculating official with social ambitions, meets the lively Elisabeth van Elzenburg, who writes novels set in the past. The two are utterly unalike, yet neither can get the other out of their mind.