Als de winter voorbij is

At sixty, Thomas, raised in Nijmegen and long settled in Amsterdam, is at last moving in with the woman he loves. Sorting through the rooms he occupied by himself since his mid-forties, he recalls what has weighed on him: being left alone in hospital at three, then losing the adopted sister he worshipped, griefs that left lasting guilt. Above all he remembers fleeting moments with strangers that turned out to matter most, like one summer day when a girl of thirteen kissed him, a timid school-leaver, and he never forgot her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

222 pages in the original

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2015 by Nieuw Amsterdam

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9789046819326 (original)