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Author: Kouwenaar, GerritClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Published on 25 September 2025 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 128 pages135 x 215 x 14 | 148g
Warm, funny, devastating. Kouwenaar captures your heart then cracks it like a nut Alice Chadwick, author of Dark Like UnderSeventeen-year-old Karel has been dreaming for something, anything, to shake up his humdrum existence. Soon his wish will be granted?.????When Hitler launches an invasion of the Netherlands,?? Karel ?is almost killed in an air raid and falls in love for the first time, with a Jewish girl. But the bliss this passion brings is short lived, as his new love and her mother are forced to flee for their lives before the Nazi advanceInspired partly by Kouwenaars own experiences under occupation, this rediscovered literary gem tells a heart-breaking, witty and deeply empathetic story of a teenagers coming-of-age at the outbreak of war.
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