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Boeli van Leeuwen
Works by Boeli van Leeuwen
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by Boeli van Leeuwen
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: Schilden van leem
Like his contemporary Tip Marugg, Boeli van Leeuwen belongs to the white, Protestant, largely Dutch-educated planter class on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, whose conflicting loyalties, guilt and decline he chronicles memorably.
Shields of Clay, his fifth novel, (more...) |
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by Boeli van Leeuwen
Translated by Andre Lefevere
Original title: Het teken van Jona
The narrator of The Sign of Jonah is an ageing writer and one-time playboy living out his twilight years on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, painfully aware of his declining physical and mental powers. Nicknamed ‘the professor’, (more...) |
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