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A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful
and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the
decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in
August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton
flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of
a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world,
inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia
became the first colonised country to declare its independence
after the Second World War. Four million civilians had died during
the wartime occupation by the Japanese that ousted the Dutch
colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in
the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used
savage violence to reassert their control, and as the Allied troops
of Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's
guerrilla war of resistance: the 'revolusi'. It was not until
December 1949 that the newly created United Nations forced The
Netherlands to cede all sovereignty to Indonesia, finally ending
350 years of colonial rule and setting a precedent that would
reshape the world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and
eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and
complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with
human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows
Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining
dramas of the twentieth century and establishes its author as one
of the most gifted narrative historians at work in any language
today.
When Martha and her six sisters are abandoned by their father following their mother's untimely death, the family bakery becomes their only means of survival. Martha, the eldest, is forced to lead the household and take on the responsibilities of her missing father. Witnessed through Emma, Martha's daughter from a failed marriage, The House of the Seven Sisters follows the siblings as they mature and, eventually, leave the bakery in search of self-fulfillment and love. Each sister, however, will return to the fold, heartbroken and disillusioned after her chosen man -- the married mayor, the cowboy con man, the hunchbacked boy next door -- fails to stand the test of time. Together they turn heartbreak into hard work, transforming the bakery into a bustling supermarket, but just when success seems near, turmoil erupts, threatening the happiness and contentment they'd long suffered to achieve. A quirky and heartwarming story of family, fate, and food, The House of the Seven Sisters is the enchanting tale of seven mysterious women who, both independently and as a family, try to come to terms with the past and carve a path for the future.
A tense, thrilling, morally murky read, set in Nazi-occupied
Antwerp and inspired by the author's own family history of
collaboration during WW2 It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of
Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of
being a hero - but war has a way of catching up with people. When
his idealistic best friend draws him into the growing resistance
movement, and an SS commander tries to force him into
collaborating, Wilfried's loyalties become horribly, fatally torn.
As the beatings, destruction and round-ups intensify across the
city, he is forced into an act that will have consequences he could
never have imagined. A searing portrayal of a man trying to survive
amid the treachery, compromises and moral darkness of occupation,
Will asks what any of us would risk to fight evil.
A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful
and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the
decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in
August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton
flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of
a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world,
inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia
became the first colonised country to declare its independence
after the Second World War. Four million civilians had died during
the wartime occupation by the Japanese that ousted the Dutch
colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in
the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used
savage violence to reassert their control, and as the Allied troops
of Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's
guerrilla war of resistance: the 'revolusi'. It was not until
December 1949 that the newly created United Nations forced The
Netherlands to cede all sovereignty to Indonesia, finally ending
350 years of colonial rule and setting a precedent that would
reshape the world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and
eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and
complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with
human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows
Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining
dramas of the twentieth century and establishes its author as one
of the most gifted narrative historians at work in any language
today.
Tibble is a reporter. He only ever writes about cats, and he's
about to be fired. Minou is a young woman who has moved into
Tibble's flat. She hates dogs, likes rooftops, loves the
fishmonger, and happens to have been, until very recently, a cat.
With her feline friends listening out for all the local human news,
is Minou the answer to all Tibble's problems-or just the beginning
of them? A hilarious, charming story of cats, dogs, and learning to
dare.
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Super Guppy (Paperback)
Edward Van De Vendel; Illustrated by Fleur Van De Weel; Translated by David Colmer
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A thought-provoking illustrated storybook in which the forest
animals discover that anger doesn't always have to be angry In ten
thoughtful, philosophical, absurd tales by master storyteller Toon
Tellegen, the forest animals-from squirrel to scarab beetle-spend
their days as friends do, with birthday parties, writing letters,
visiting, dancing, or sometimes all alone. Each day brings emotions
that are always worth exploring, although not always easy, and each
story reveals new layers through the expressive, touching and funny
illustrations of Marc Boutavant. This wry and nuanced collection of
stories gently shows that anger, in all its shapes and sizes, is a
natural, necessary and often misunderstood emotion.
After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet
Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe’s most
innovative and original new voices in poetry following the
publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015. Her first
English translation combines her debut volume with her second book
Nachtroer (2017), its untranslatable title the name of all-night
shop in Antwerp where she lives. Chameleon is a set of apparently
naïve but knowingly ironic, playful and subversive poems which
trace a girl’s search for a woman’s identity, a coming-of-age
exploration of body and language drawing on memories, shapes and
landscapes. In Nachtroer her poems take a nighttime journey through
heartbreak, insomnia and the hectic flow of daily life, driven by a
desire for disappearance, displacement and dissolution. Chameleon
ends with taking to the ocean. Nachtroer’s last poem is about
building a boat for such a voyage. Chameleon | Nachtroer sets the
two books afloat in English.
Philosophical, wise, funny, true-to-child and wonderfully
illustrated stories about an unbreakable friendship between a panda
and a squirrel, from two world greats of children's literature.
Panda and Squirrel can't live without each other and do everything
together: lie on the rocks to look at the moon, take walks, play
games. One of their journeys lasts for only two steps, another day
they discover a newly hatched duckling. Sometimes they argue but
they always make up again. This a friendship for any day: roaring,
quiet, grumbling, snoring . . . always. These down-to-earth,
warmhearted friendship stories reach straight from the soul of one
six-year-old to another. Written by Ed Franck, one of Belgium's
most important and innovative children's writers, and illustrated
by The Tjong-Khing, a world-leading illustrator for children, whose
many accolades include nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen
Award.
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Tow-Truck Pluck (Hardcover)
Annie Schmidt; Illustrated by Fiep Westendorp; Translated by David Colmer
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Pluck has been driving all over town in his little red tow truck,
looking for a home. When he finds out there's a room going free in
the Pill Building he goes straight there and moves in. Right away
he makes lots of friends, including Zaza the cockroach and Dolly
the pigeon. Now his adventures can begin... Blending realistic
characters with the fantastic, full of adventure and humour,
Tow-Truck Pluck is an unforgettably offbeat children's classic in
the vein of Roald Dahl's The BFG, and one of the Netherlands most
popular children's books of all time.
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You Are the Loveliest (Hardcover)
Monique Hagen, Hans Hagen; Illustrated by Marit Tornqvist; Translated by David Colmer
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R313
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Sometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries so
wide, that we can't find the words to express them. How MUCH love
we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it's like to
take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to shine on a rainy day.
These thoughts and questions are explored by Hans and Monique Hagen
in poems pitched perfectly to the children who wonder. Marit
Toernqvist is their brilliant partner, spreading gorgeous color and
heartfelt imagery across these pages. If you want a sneak peek at
what we mean, turn to the sunflower spread on page thirty, and
feel...yourself smile.
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The Hitchhiker (Paperback)
Gerwin van der Werf; Translated by David Colmer
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Habitus (Paperback)
Radna Fabias; Translated by David Colmer
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Subversive, visual, and bold, Curacao-born Dutch Radna Fabias'
explosive debut collection Habitus marks the entry of a
genre-altering poet. Habitus is a collection full of thrilling
sensory images, lines in turn grim and enchanting which move from
the Caribbean island of Curacao to the immigrant experience of the
Netherlands. Fabias' intrepid masterpiece explores issues of
racism, neo-colonialism, poverty, and sexism with a heartbreaking
rhythm and endless nuance. Broken into three parts ("View with
coconut," "Rib," and "Demonstrable effort made"), Habitus explores
the profound struggles of melancholic longing, womanhood, religion,
and migration. This ambitious, powerful, and compassionate
collection has emerged, cheering on ambiguity, fluidity, and a
lyrical ego on a quest to find its home.
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Little Fox (Hardcover)
Edward Van De Vendel; Illustrated by Marije Tolman; Translated by David Colmer
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Good parents everywhere know the tension of wanting our kids to be
curious, to have rich experiences and friends...but to be perfectly
safe while doing it. Little Fox knows all about it! His father (in
classic picture book fashion) warns him of the danger everywhere.
But Little Fox still frolics with butterflies, scavenges for food,
and searches for new friends. Then one day he takes a tumble, bumps
his head, and starts dreaming of things that reflect both the
beauty he's seen and the scary things he's heard. Marije Tolman's
ingenious illustrations use a fresh technique that FEELS like a
movie and a dream, starring the cheerful, bright orange Little Fox
on grainy mixed media landscapes of blue and green. And when Little
Fox wakes up, he's perhaps a little wiser, but still every bit as
curious and full of life.
When Anna loses her family and her fortune in a fire she must find
work as a servant girl. Her mysterious master, De Malapert,
fascinates her and she soon becomes obsessed with discovering the
secret he is hiding.
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Occupied City (Paperback)
Paul Van Ostaijen; Translated by David Colmer
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R298
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Pond Full of Ink (Paperback)
Annie M. G Schmidt; Illustrated by Sieb Posthuma; Translated by David Colmer
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The Man I Became (Paperback)
Peter Verhelst; Translated by David Colmer
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Warning: This story is narrated by a gorilla. He is plucked from
the jungle. He learns to chat and passes the ultimate test: a
cocktail party. Eventually he is moved to an amusement park, where
he acts in a play about the history of civilisation. But as the
gorilla becomes increasingly aware of human frailties, he must
choose between his instincts and his training, between principles
and self-preservation. ----- Why Peirene chose to publish this
book: 'This is Peirene's first book narrated by an ape. Animal
fables are usually not my thing. It needed Belgian deadpan humour
to convince me otherwise. Mixing Huxley's Brave New World with
Orwell's Animal Farm, the fast-paced plot leaves behind images that
play in your mind long after you have closed the book.' Meike
Ziervogel, Publisher
Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story,is one
of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the
Netherlands today. Self-Portrait of an Other is one of the most
unique and innovative works in his oeuvre. Written in response to
and published together with a series of drawings by the
Berlin-based artist Max Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboom's
personal reflections--his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies,
landscapes, stories and nightmares--and presents a set of prose
poems that complements and echoes Neumann's work. Full of striking
scenes and disturbing images, the poems, driven by the logic of
dreams, create the self-portrait of the title.
Maia is an impatient little scamp, just like her grandma. When
something pops into their heads, they want it now! Right away! They
get along like a house on fire. One day Grandma falls ill and all
her words become muddled. The grown-ups can't understand her, but
Maia knows exactly what she means! A wonderful book to share with
children and to treasure for years to come.
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Monk's Eye (Hardcover)
Cees Nooteboom; Translated by David Colmer; Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
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Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two
islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and
finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent
summers for decades. The poems--which can be read individually or,
all together, as the record of a poet's life--are about the two
islands. But they're also about islands as an archetype, about the
serenity that we can find on beaches and amid dunes, the sea
sweeping imperturbably around us. Accompanied by Sunandini
Banerjee's collages, the poems in this volume are rich in allusion;
they address the past, memories, illusions, dreams, and the heart
of all poetry--which Nooteboom locates in the opening line of
Plato's Phaedrus, when Socrates, walking with his admirer, asks,
"My dear Phaedrus, whence came you, and whither are you going?"
The Dutch poet, anthologist and translator Menno Wigman died in
2018 at just fifty-one, several years after being diagnosed with a
rare heart condition likely caused by an allergic reaction suffered
in his adolescence. This memorial pamphlet is intended as a tribute
to the poet and as a companion to Window-Cleaner Sees Paintings, my
selection of Wigman's poetry published by Arc in 2016.
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An Untouched House (Paperback)
Willem Frederik Hermans; Translated by David Colmer
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Towards the end of the Second World War, a weary partisan fighting with the Red Army in Germany comes across a grand, abandoned house, seemingly untouched by the devastation sweeping the country. Exhausted, he falls asleep in the living room, but wakes to find a German patrol marching up the garden path. His only hope is to pose as the house's owner, but how will he keep up the pretence when the real owner returns?
Dazzling, dark and scorchingly violent, with the breakneck pace of a thriller, this timeless classic is a vivid depiction of what happens when the mask of decency is cast aside in the savagery of war.
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