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“Public Works” (title translated by AI)
Thomas Rosenboom (born 1956)
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In 1888 the Victoria Hotel is planned on the very spot where the Amsterdam violin maker Walter Vedder lives, and he resolves to make the developers pay dearly. Meanwhile in Hoogeveen his elderly cousin Anijs, an apothecary outshone by a younger, university-trained rival, looks for a nobler role and finds it in the wretched peat-cutting families nearby. Counting on Vedder's windfall, the two men plan to fund the emigration of a hundred of them to the New World.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 488 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Netherlands, 1880s
- First published
- 1999 by Querido
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9789021479774 (original)
- More
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