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Romans literatuur
Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.
On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brutal routine of overseeing executions and punishments, he longs for an escape. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.
Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave.
From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.
© 2018 HarperCollins Publishers (Luisterboek): 9781443456616
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 4 september 2018
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Romans literatuur
Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.
On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brutal routine of overseeing executions and punishments, he longs for an escape. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever.
Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave.
From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.
© 2018 HarperCollins Publishers (Luisterboek): 9781443456616
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 4 september 2018
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Sylvie
2 aug 2023
I had trouble with the accent of the female character. I’m Dutch and had to put the book down 3x. But I kept coming back to the story of Marijke. Who ended up in a Nazi Camp Brothel it was a harrowing story. I was not sure if I wanted to read it. As it was written as if you where standing in the same room as her. But slowly her character got a hold of me. Her mind set for survival was astonishing. I would like to have read more about her life after the war. But it was a short end. I was confused by the story in Argentina. Such a violent capture of a gay young man. Who’s father was the same nazi who met Marijke in de death camp. I guess it made a bit of sense. Most Nazi’s tried to escape to Argentina. And we all know about the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Argentina during the 1970 regime. However, the two stories did not really meet. The end was harsh. It became two books in one. For that reason I did not give 5 stars. Overal a brutally honest written book.
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