Moedervlekken

Otto Kadoke, a psychiatrist in his fifties, divorced and without children, spends his days at an emergency unit talking suicidal patients back from the brink, always by the book. Calling on his ailing mother, who survived the Nazi camps, he finds the door opened by her young Nepalese carer, clad in nothing but a towel, and falls head over heels; the fallout leaves him in charge of his mother's care. Later he brings home a young patient who cuts herself to help nurse her, and his clinic and his family life merge into one, as mother and son grow ever more entangled.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

399 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2016 by Lebowski

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789048819133 (original)

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