Het vloekhout

A fragment of an olive tree growing in Palestine serves as part of the cross on which the prophet Yeshua is executed. The wood is no ordinary timber: it talks, and anyone handling it is seized by strange desire. A theatre man in need of a prop carries it off, and so begins an odyssey of over two millennia, during which it turns up in a rare Russian Madonna icon and as a talisman in Malevich's studio, and passes from emperors and monks to the tsar, the Vatican, fascists and Soviet officials, all of whom it views with a sardonic eye.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

213 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789403120409 (original)