Duke of Egypt

by Margriet de Moor

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Flame-haired Lucie raises horses on her father's farm. One summer day, she meets a dark, handsome stranger named Joseph, and it is love at first sight. But their union is as improbable as their love is deep. For Joseph is a wanderer, a full-blooded gypsy for whom all of Europe is a stomping ground. Despite their cultural differences, they marry, have three children, and lead a normal life--with one exception: each spring, Joseph takes to the road to return to his other family, the gypsies, show more scattered to the four corners of Europe. More than a moving love story, Duke of Egypt is an exploration of gypsy identity, as revealed over centuries and across continents through the stories that Joseph tells to his wife. It is a tale of glory overshadowed always by grim reality that led to the gates of Auschwitz. Yet when the private world of Joseph and Lucie is threatened, the strength of their love and the strength of the gypsy spirit fuse to lift their story onto a shimmering new plane. show less

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Een zigeuner trouwt een burgervrouw. Ze accepteert dat hij elke zomer door Europa trekt. Zij zorgt voor de paarden, de boerderij, de kinderen.
Na 16 jaar moet Joseph thuisblijven: kanker wordt geconstateerd. Hij overlijdt, maar hij blijft dicht bij zijn vrouw Lucy. Uit de vertelde verhalen blijkt dat dit al eeuwen het geval is.

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Canonical title
Duke of Egypt
Original title
Hertog van Egypte
Original publication date
1996
Important places*
Egypte
Epigraph*
En - hoe ging de reis? Hoe ging het met het hart dat scheurde en niet brak?

Marina Tsvetajeva
Dedication*
Ter gedachtenis aan mijn man, Heppe, die mij alles heeft voorgedaan.
First words
Er zijn nogal wat mensen die beweren dat ze het die middag meteen in de gaten hadden.
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
839.31364Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesNetherlandish literaturesDutchDutch fiction20th Century1945-1999
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PT5881.23 .O578 .H4713Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesDutch literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000
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