Prose

‘History rarely repeats itself in a blatant manner, but when the events are over, it often turns out to have performed an old play behind new masks and in updated…

‘Does dissatisfaction become contentment when you resign yourself to it?’ Carmen, a middle aged childless woman, is not so sure. She decides to take a leap into the depths of…

In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was among the hardest hit areas in the world. Ilja Leonard…

Grand Hotel Europa has dominated the Dutch general bestselling list for more than an entire year. More than 300,000 copies have been sold so far. Grand Hotel Europa will be…

‘The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble’ ran the headline in The New York Times in 2013, above an article about an Oxford professor of particle…

An anthology of the ultrashort stories in Harsh Facts, One Hundred Novels (2010)

Letters from Genoa is the natural counterpart to La Superba. It takes place largely in its title city and discusses La Superba and how it was received. However, it is…

A short, autobiographical novel about the theft of the Characters by Theophrastus.

A short novel situated in the ugliest city of the Netherlands (Tilburg).

This novel is set in Genoa, the labyrinthine port city (nicknamed ‘the Superb’) where the author has been living for the past five years. Migration is the central theme of…

In Minister Kwist we closely follow the final days of the first Rutte cabinet. And by looking over the shoulder of the least well-known minister from that cabinet. Kwist, minister…

A collection of exactly one hundred very short novels, of a maximum of 500 words each.

Rupert has been accused of a terrible crime, and his imagined defense begins the night he met the love of his life, Mira. By turns shockingly honest, incredibly funny, and…

Real Life: a Novel is a book in the tradition of Italo Calvino’s ground-breaking IF ON A WINTER NIGHT’S A TRAVELER. It is at once a gripping and enchanting story…

An astonishing and shocking literary epic about the world of dredging. You will never read anything else like this. A man who works on a dredging boat bumps into a…