Terug naar Walden

Once his doctor gives him little time to live, Ruler Marsh, who has topped the list of the world's wealthiest people for a decade, settles an old score. His parents' Texas construction business went under in the Depression, and both took their own lives; he blames the speculators and bankers, and his revenge triggers a global financial collapse. Yet he also hands over control and lets coincidence steer him: from Manhattan to a Brussels hotel and on to Wallem, the Kempen village in Belgium his grandfather Wouter Vermeersch left for America in 1885. Kaat, a philosophy student earning her fees as a sex worker under the name Kitty, goes with him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

287 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Belgium

First published

2009 by Meulenhoff/Manteau

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789085422136 (original)