Hogere machten

James Welmoed, a shrewd official with social ambitions and an air of calm, meets the exuberant, adventurous Elisabeth van Elzenburg in the 1930s, when she is just starting out as a novelist. What begins between them turns into an affair that lasts for decades while the world outside changes at speed. Their story moves from colonial Bandung and wartime London under German bombs to The Hague after the war, Egypt in revolt and on into the 1960s, as the lovers live through temptation and parting, shame, success, vanity and betrayal, with history being made around them while they stand at its edges.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

319 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Egypt, 1930s–1960s

First published

2024 by Prometheus

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789044653991 (original)