Julia

Zusatztext 'A monumental little book' Roger Cox! Scotsman. Informationen zum Autor Otto de Kat is the pen name of the founder of Dutch non-fiction publishing house Balans, Jan Guert Gaarlandt, also a poet, novelist and critic. His prize-winning novels have been widely published in Europe, and Man on the Move was the winner of the Netherlands' Halewijn Literature Prize. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Cees Nooteboom, W.F. Hermans, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie and Margriet de Moor. Klappentext From the moment he meets Julia, Christiaan Dudok is dangerously close to love. But their first date is interrupted by S.A. Brownshirts storming into the cafe. It is 1937, and Germany is heading for war and fanaticism. Chris, a Dutchman, is both transfixed and appalled by the effect of Hitler's manic oratory on the people of Lubeck. The independence and freedom of thought that Chris finds so attractive in Julia leads her to emphatically reject the Nazi regime, and before long her courageous stance brings them both to the Gestapo's attention. Soon Chris is forced to make an impossible choice, the outcome of which he can only regret. The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. Zusammenfassung The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Otto de Kat, Otto Kat, Otto de Kat
• Assisted by: Ina Rilke (Translation), Rilke Ina (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2013
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780857051110
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-111-0
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions (packing): 13.1 x 19.7 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Historical romance, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Holocaust, Germany, Resistance, love at first sight, Fiction in translation, Historical novel, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Nazi Germany, World War Two, world war two novel, dutch literature, News from Berlin