Man zonder rijbewijs

A writer who always refused to drive decides, late in life, to learn after all, and from behind the wheel of an instructor's car he sees Amsterdam, his home for nearly half a century, afresh. Why so late? Seeking an answer, he traces what made him: a drive with his mother that almost ended in disaster, a reserved father and mother, a swaggering grandfather from Friesland, mishaps and lucky escapes, car-free trips through Morocco and Egypt, and what a life of writing does to a person. Every lesson in joining traffic, parking or passing becomes a reflection on his own past and his parents'.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

214 pages in the original

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2022 by Augustus

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9789025473594 (original)