Huid en haar

Oberstein teaches economics and is as cold and awkward with people as his discipline would predict; to him desire, care and time are currencies to be traded. Everyone around him is shopping for happiness and failing. Violet, his partner, is unfaithful out of despair at his indifference. Leah, whom he meets through his interest in the Holocaust, wants something meaningful; her husband wants to bully a delivery man with no papers; his former wife wants her gloomy lover to notice her; his small boy just wants his dad. As the novel goes on, Oberstein loses his cool reason too, falling for a student and her friend.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

525 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2010 by Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789038893822 (original)

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