De omwegen

The three Goetgeluck brothers, triplets from a Flemish family that has come apart, leave home to chase very different dreams. Johan becomes a respected scholar who is miserable anyway, Jonas a millionaire without mercy, Joris a romantic drifter who wants to improve the world. Jumping back and forth in time, the novel follows their wanderings across a fractured globe, marked by the upheavals of the 1990s and 2000s, from the financial crisis to Flemish nationalism, while their parents' past echoes post-war Europe and the women in their lives try in vain to hold them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

377 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Belgium

First published

2013 by De Bezige Bij Antwerpen

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789085423706 (original)