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Het gemaal

“The Pumping Station” (title translated by AI)

Frank Noë (born 1959)

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Hungry, hot-headed and restless, Willie Hoppe, nineteen, goes with his brother Steven to work on drainage in the polder while the war goes on. Among silt and heavy soil, episodes accumulate: rescuing a horse, a show in women's clothes, a tender affair inside a crashed US bomber, nights with Tor, and caring for Steven when he sickens.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
248 pages in the original
Genres
War, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Netherlands, Second World War
First published
2000 by Querido
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9789021477374 (original)