The Great Longing
by Marcel Möring
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Alienated and adrift, having lost all memory of his childhood up to the age of 12, when his parents were killed in a mysterious accident, Sam van Dijk embarks on a journey of self-discovery through a contemporary landscape often dark and unexpectedly violent.Tags
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Dit boek voor de tweede keer herlezen en het staat nog steeds als een huis. Mooi verhaal, bijzonder geschreven met snelle wisselingen in de tijd. Ik kan geen afstand doen van het boek, ga het vast ooit nog wel eens lezen.
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- Canonical title
- The Great Longing
- Original title
- Het grote verlangen : roman
- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Sam van Dijk; Raph van Dijk; Lisa van Dijk
- Important places
- The Netherlands
- Original language
- Dutch
Classifications
- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 839.31364 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Dutch Dutch fiction 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PT5881.23 .O75 .G7613 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Dutch literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German, Romanian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 4
