De maagd Marino

The novel starts by recounting, coolly and in grim detail, how one man killed another. Then the dead man takes over the narration, determined to set the record straight about a death he himself invited. Bruno had been a popular lecturer until he walked away from the university, fed up with the drive for publications and no longer convinced that books matter more than life. Marino, slow with words, has simply drifted since his mother died. The brilliant talker and the near-mute loner, both living on the edge of society, gradually draw closer by recognising each other's need, a story loosely modelled on a real case in Germany.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

284 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

First published

2010 by De Bezige Bij

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789023454441 (original)