(Liefde in het Derde Rijk)
From the best prose artist and storyteller writing in Dutch today.
Meet Georg, Klara and Lore. Their lives are very different: George is an ordinary, reluctant, soldier, Klara ends up working for the Lebensborn organisation and Lore becomes her chauffeur. Their three stories meander like snakes through the twentieth century, each with its own timeline, sometimes intertwined, sometimes separate. All three experience the Third Reich, with different degrees of engagement, passion and understanding. All three are moved by the Fates. With and through them we experience the passion of first love, and the misguided idealism of a youth growing up in a totalitarian regime. Tossed back and forth between innocence and the will to survive, betrayal and loyalty, they survive the horrors of the Second World War. Driessen knows how to write a completely original story, told from the inside, capturing the feelings, situations, decisions, dramas of these lives vividly and authentically – this novel will fascinate, discomfort and entertain in equal measure.
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- Van Oorschot NL (original publisher, June 2025)
Material: Finished copies and pdf (240pp)