Alleen met de goden

It begins when Aaron Bachman, aged eleven, finds a motionless man at the front door while his father stands in the hallway, fists tight, then rings the police and confesses. Aaron grows up poor and unloved; his mother keeps telling him it would have been better had he never been born. In the kickboxing ring he learns to fight, but the real struggle is against where he comes from. Help comes from unexpected corners: a trainer who channels his rage, a music teacher who shows him what words and imagination can do, a grandfather, and a pit bull named Otis.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

518 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Podium

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789057597114 (original)