Ritselingen

Deep in a forest, in a rough home, a woodcutter raises his lame son Kareltje, who has no mother. When the boy says he would like a deer, his father goes out straight away and comes back at nightfall, proud, carrying a fawn he has killed, and asks how they should cook it. The well-meaning woodcutter keeps getting things wrong, and the boy's wish awakens a hidden family past, linked to a cheese farmer outside the forest who seems to have collaborated during the war. Like a fairy tale, the novel leaves names, places and dates vague.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

245 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2005 by Podium

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789057591075 (original)