Waar was je nou

An antique camera that still uses film becomes a door to the past for the narrator, with the help of a pair of variety performers and a brooch. Ordinary gestures drive the story: putting a key somewhere, gazing through glass, strolling by the sea. Small things, a mouth organ, a kite, shoes, spectacles, act as stage props; they come alive and show him the way, while advertising slogans and bits of songs work as incantations. The Amsterdam and Zandvoort of the post-war decades grow so vivid that he would rather remain there than return.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands, 1940s–1950s

First published

2005 by Querido

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9789021480183 (original)

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