Belgium

Books set in Belgium.

New Releases Tagged "Belgium"

Beyond the Clouds (Women of Midtown, #3)
Canticle
Het geschenk
Wolf
El libro de las hermanas
33 Place Brugmann
Code Name Sapphire
The White Lady
When the World Goes Quiet
De eerlijke vinder
Premier sang
Autobiografie van mijn lichaam
L'impossible retour
The Omega Factor
De randen
Beyond the Clouds (Women of Midtown, #3)
I Who Have Never Known Men
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Stupeur et tremblements
War and Turpentine
Het verdriet van België
Bruges-La-Morte
The Lady and the Unicorn
On Black Sisters Street
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
De helaasheid der dingen
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
De engelenmaker
Dirty Snow
Het smelt
The Neverending Story by Michael EndeLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTintenherz by Cornelia FunkeThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Fantasy - Beyond the English Language
402 books — 142 voters
Het parfum; De geschiedenis van een moordenaar by Patrick SüskindHet oneindige verhaal by Michael EndeSchaaknovelle by Stefan ZweigHet lijden van de jonge Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDe schimmelruiter by Theodor Storm
Dutch translations of German books
120 books — 14 voters

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansThe Assault by Harry MulischHersenschimmen by J. Bernlef
The best Dutch literature
414 books — 387 voters
De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri VerhulstKartonnen dozen by Tom LanoyeHet verdriet van België by Hugo ClausSprakeloos by Tom LanoyePost voor mevrouw Bromley by Stefan Brijs
Belgian Literature
236 books — 71 voters

Kruistocht in spijkerbroek by Thea BeckmanDe brief voor de koning by Tonke DragtKoning van Katoren by Jan TerlouwPluk van de Petteflet by Annie M.G. SchmidtKinderen van Moeder Aarde by Thea Beckman
Children's and YA fiction in Dutch
428 books — 152 voters
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBonjour tristesse by Françoise SaganMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Europe Minus Men and English
854 books — 226 voters


Hugo Claus
I am a great admirer of Leopold II, although I think that he should be destroyed in the memory of mankind and reduced to the state in which I presented him in my play, namely a dirty goblin who as soon as he does something of any interest must be raised in order to become a fully-fledged human being.
Hugo Claus

Bruce Gilley
Hochschild repeats the urban legend that Léopold burned all the EIC documents, going “to extraordinary lengths to try to erase potentially incriminating evidence.” Quite the opposite: Léopold was proud of the EIC and went to extraordinary lengths to leave behind an extensive record. The testimony of his military aide that Hochschild cites about “burning the State archives” and turning “most of the Congo state records to ash” was a misunderstanding: what the aide saw burning were ruined and unrea ...more
Bruce Gilley, King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.

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