Tomas Lieske

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• Gran Café Boulevard

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  Libris 2004 · Shortlist

  Gran Café Boulevard

  Tomas Lieske · 60 when first published

  Novel · 357 pages · Love, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Thrown together by a theft on a Spanish train in 1944, a passport forger and a young orphan become lovers in Bilbao, and in 1951 have to escape to a Dutch polder and his brother, a recluse who breeds bats.

• Franklin

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  Libris 2001 · ★ Winner

  Franklin

  Tomas Lieske · 57 when first published

  Novel · 335 pages · Family, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Cast off by his mother and overlooked by his father, Franklin Lowendaal grows up fending for himself, drifting through boarding schools and cheap lodgings until he lands with his uncle Charles and Charles's companion Niel.