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Boeken van herinnering
In Tabee, New York krijgt de jonge diplomaat Rudy in New York onverwachts een kans om zijn jeugdliefde uit Nederlands-Indië te heroveren. In Bougainville verdrinkt Tommie Vaulant, een jeugdvriend van diplomaat Bo, op raadselachtige wijze tijdens een gezamenlijk verblijf in Bangladesh. Bij de uitgerangeerde politicus Chris Regensberg komt in Bandoeng-Bandung zijn verdrongen kampverleden boven tijdens een handelsmissie naar het moderne Indonesië. In Kandy gaan de gedachten van Fergus Steyn terug naar Ceylon, waar hij na zijn repatriëring uit Nederlands- Indië korte tijd verbleef. Boeken van herinnering is een bundeling van deze vier romans. Tegen de achtergrond van historische gebeurtenissen vertelt Springer met milde ironie en op relativerende toon zijn tijdloze verhalen over vriendschap, verraad, liefde en verloren illusies.
432 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2015
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About the author
F. Springer
29 books19 followersF. Springer (15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011) was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer.
Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style is reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution. Especially important in his work is the Netherlands Indies[2] and the concept of tempo doeloe, the nostalgia associated with life in the former Dutch colonies in the East.[1]
For Bougainville he received the Ferdinand Bordewijk award in 1982 and was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire work in 1995. He died in The Hague.
Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style is reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution. Especially important in his work is the Netherlands Indies[2] and the concept of tempo doeloe, the nostalgia associated with life in the former Dutch colonies in the East.[1]
For Bougainville he received the Ferdinand Bordewijk award in 1982 and was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire work in 1995. He died in The Hague.
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