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De verering van Quirina T.
“The Worship of Quirina T.” (title translated by AI)
L.H. Wiener (born 1945)
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Victor van Gigch, the author's alter ego, is about to retire from teaching English at a Haarlem grammar school. Uneasy as he is with women, he grows infatuated with Quirina T., a girl of seventeen in his class. The infatuation sets off a flood of memories and a journey to his boyhood village. Out for revenge, he calls on Catharina van Nyenbeek, now very old, once the dazzling mother of a childhood friend, who bewitched him four and a half decades ago. The meeting turns out differently than he planned and shows him hidden sides of his father and brother.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 316 pages in the original
- Set in
- Netherlands
- First published
- 2006 by Contact
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
9789025428334 (original)