Knielen op een bed violen

As a boy in Lathum, a village by the IJssel, Hans Sievez lived in the shadow of his father's stern, cheerless religion. As an adult he runs a nursery in Velp, his own paradise, until shabby, gnome-like lay preachers dressed in black begin visiting with their pious tracts. The rigid creed of his childhood returns for good. One day, among his plants, he believes God has struck him down, and from then on his hunt for meaning leaves ever less space for his wife and their two boys, who look on without being able to help.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

445 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2005 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789023416340 (original)

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