Zwarte schuur

Maris Coppoolse grew up in Zeeland and has lived for decades in the great cities of the world, yet among sophisticated people he can still feel like a clumsy farm boy. Now, at fifty-nine, he stands on the brink of his finest moment, a major retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, when a journalist uncovers what feeds his sombre paintings: an act he committed at fourteen in a barn painted with black tar. Slowly the book reveals that afternoon as Maris recalls it, a lonely boy tormented by village kids and unsettled by his longing for a local girl, and how it shadowed his later loves and his marriage to Fran, now stalled after twenty years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

489 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2019 by Augustus

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789025451400 (original)

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