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“Guilt” (title translated by AI)

Walter van den Berg (born 1970)

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Amsterdam Nieuw-West is a world of snack bars, battered Nissans and men who beat their wives. A few young men here live just beyond the law: one did a tour as a soldier in Uruzgan, another has only just left prison. Kevin, the clever one and the only student among them, wipes stolen laptops so they can be resold, uploads the sex clips he stumbles on, and rings the unfaithful to confront them. With the cash he settles debts his father ran up, until the old man, a one-time crooner, gets out of jail. Their stories arrive in fragments, out of sequence, each hiding its own guilt.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
223 pages in the original
Genres
Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Netherlands
First published
2016 by Das Mag
Author's age
46 when first published
ISBN

9789082410624 (original)