My Fellow Skin

Anton's first years are spent in the warmth of a family home, but the idyll soon shows fault lines: a much-loved uncle dies without warning and a tormenting cousin, Roland, makes life miserable for all. As he moves into his teens, school feels like a cell, things grow tense with his father, an older cousin he idolises ignores him, and his feelings turn instead towards Willem, a boy from his class. At nineteen he leaves the rural house to study. The novel follows these phases of adolescence in three sections.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

191 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Belgium

First published

2000 by Meulenhoff

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789029066853 (original)

9781843430469 (Harvill, United Kingdom)

9781782270195 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)