Ruw

An accident has taken Gemma's sight, but she will not sit at home in despair. She arms herself with a stick, learns to read with her fingers and sharpens hearing, smell, taste and touch, then heads outdoors on her own, often at night. Each outing through the narrow streets of her neighbourhood is a risk and an adventure: from the noise she can tell whether a street is crowded, from the scents whether a square has plants, while gusts warn her of corners and downpours hide oncoming traffic. Slowly she builds a whole new map of the place, and the books she now reads by touch open up to her more deeply than before.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

206 pages in the original

First published

2009 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789023429869 (original)

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