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Buiten is het maandag

“Outside It Is Monday” (title translated by AI)

J. Bernlef (born 1937)

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Stijn Bekkering's wife dies in a road accident while he lies comatose; he misses both her last moments and her funeral. Soon after, his married son Harry walks out on his wife Sandra and disappears. Word comes that Harry was seen in a remote Canadian town, and Stijn goes after him. There, in forest country thick with tales and mysteries, he settles down, minds a junk shop, lives with young Tracy and befriends the imposing artist Bruce Grady, who studies the Maori.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
214 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Netherlands, Canada
First published
2003 by Querido
Author's age
66 when first published
ISBN

9789021452777 (original)

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