Tirza

At the party for his younger daughter, who has just finished school, Jörgen Hofmeester acts the flawless host. He believed he had arrived at a point in life where nothing could shake him. Yet as he serves the sushi he made himself and the sardines, the story shows a man who has lost control everywhere: his anxious protectiveness has estranged his older daughter; the girl he thinks brilliant carries the hopes he never fulfilled; his investments vanished in the downturn after 9/11; and his wife has just returned after living three years with a former sweetheart.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

430 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2006 by Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789038827254 (original)

9781934824696 (Open Letter, United States)

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