Het verdwijnen van Robbert

After his first book wins an award, the young author Robbert decides to stop writing and vanish completely. With the calm precision of a thriller the novel records how he goes about it, throwing away his belongings and planning how to leave no trail, and asks what his absence will do to friends and family. He hopes to forget Chloe, the girl who married someone else. His escape comes to a halt in the north of Germany: he takes menial work, and gets into a passionate affair with an older woman who becomes frightened of him. Then a private investigator turns up on his track.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Set in

Germany

First published

2013 by Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789038896717 (original)