De onderwaterzwemmer

In the final winter of the war, Tin van Heel, fourteen, swims across a freezing river by night with his father to reach the liberated south; on the far bank the father never surfaces, though the boy keeps watch on the riverbank until the following night. In 1974 Tin and his wife Vic go into the West African interior to meet the albino child they sponsor, Salif; on arrival Vic is abducted, and his efforts to intervene end in horror. By 2004 Tin lies in a filthy Havana hospital, and a grandson he has never met comes to save him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

252 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands, Cuba, 1944–2004

First published

2015 by Atlas Contact

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789025444310 (original)

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