Dutch literature

Book Reviews

• Gerbrand Bakker: The Twin*
  - a time of change for a Dutch farmer
• Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium**
  - an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
• Hugo Claus: Wonder
  - collaboration and confusion in post-war Flanders
• Louis Couperus: The Hidden Force
  - Dutch pragmatism encounters Javanese mysticism
• Tijs Goldschmidt: Darwin's Dreampond
  Drama in Lake Victoria
• Hans Lauwerier: Fractals
  Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures
• Geert Mak: Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City
  - from polders to provocations
• Luuk Van Middelaar: The Passage to Europe*
  How a Continent Became a Union
• Harry Mulisch: The Assault*
  - a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
• Harry Mulisch: The Discovery of Heaven*
  - a large but lively novel of ideas
• Multatuli: Max Havelaar
  Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
• Rob Nieuwenhuys: Mirror of the Indies
  A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
• E. Breton de Nijs: Faded Portraits
  A Novel of the Indies
• Jan Jacob Slauerhoff: The Forbidden Kingdom
  - confusions of identity in 16th + 20th century Macao