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Datumloze dagen
“Dateless Days” (title translated by AI)
Jeroen Brouwers (born 1940)
English editions
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A surly, unnamed man of more than sixty takes a long walk among the trees with his stick, counting trunks to calm himself. Grieving a heavy loss, he asks where he went wrong: when love deceived him, when a child arrived that he never wanted, along with duties he refused, when he ran off through divorce and when, barred from visiting his small son Nathan, he let the boy slip from his mind. Their rare later meetings were accidental and awkward, and each time the son left let down. The novel is a single monologue spoken on the walk.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 190 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2007 by Atlas
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
9789045017044 (original)