Buitenspiegels: verhalen over Nederland

by Kader Abdolah

Dutch

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.

He studied physics at the Arak College of Science and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft (The Netherlands), writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque), catapulted Abdolah into the Dutch bestseller lists.

Reviews

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Er is een beetje te veel klagen over Nederlanders en zijn gewoontes in deze verhaaltjes door deze buitenlandse schrijvers.

[Eloise · Rating 3 out of 5]

First book club of 2025! Some good stories, some less good. They're all written by people who live in the Netherlands but come from different cultures. Some of them come across so grumpy and complaining, or generalise too much from a few experiences, but there were a few that got the balance right.
I liked Exmat the most, it was a good story, and just told a story of two people and hinted at their cultural backgrounds, without trying to extrapolate one personality onto a whole nationality.

[Frederike Pracht · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genoten van deze ontroerende korte verhalen. Het verhaal van Gabriel Inzauraralde blijft me het meest bij. Zo’n bundel zou weer geschreven kunnen worden door een nieuwe generatie schrijvers met een migratie achtergrond. De maatschappij is inmiddels weer veranderd.