Book Week kicks off this Saturday. The 87th edition of the book festival pays tribute to "First Love. From April 9 to 18, feelings and desires take center stage within this theme. Let love come to you with these six books.Text: Patrick Stoffer
This year's book week gift is Monterosso Mon Amour. In the book, you meet Carmen, a woman who is very active in the local library. She thinks back to her former family vacation in Italy, the place where she had her first kiss. Carmen travels again to Monterosso. Unexpectedly, she stays there a lot longer than previously intended....
"This is the only thing that matters, darling, that someone sees more in you than you knew there was to see." This sentence from the book was voted the most beautiful sentence about love in Dutch literature in the Netherlands. In "Een schitterend gebrek," Japin tells the story of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th century adventurer from Venice, through the eyes of Lucia, his first lover. Because of his reputation, Casanova's name remains linked to womanizing until now. Back in 2004, the novel was awarded the Libris Literature Prize.
Frank account of the love between Femke and the late mayor of Amsterdam: Eberhard van der Laan: about happiness and strife, birth and death. A unique look behind the scenes into the marriage of someone with a top public position: never before has 'the family of' been described so from the inside. Femke and Eberhard meet while working at his law firm. They fall in love, moving from house to house across town until they find a permanent home. They marry and have children. She works as a copywriter, he becomes a minister, then mayor. They see each other at the edges of the day. Femke van der Laan writes candidly and movingly about their great love and their struggle with time.
Children of Fortune begins with adventurer Leon Herckenrath who lost his heart to a young slave girl in 1818 and follows their eldest daughter and her Dutch husband during their adventures in Goldrush California. And how did their descendants fare, with their unusual heritage of enormous wealth and black blood? An inspiring family saga about people who did not let their lives be circumscribed by risk and their loves not by skin color.
In their first joint book Je bent niet alleen, mother Isa Hoes and son Merlijn Kamerling describe what it is like to mourn someone who was very close to you. So close that the loss of that person makes your life completely different. In the case of Isa and Merlijn that person was a husband and father, Antonie Kamerling, but this book is recognizable to anyone who has lost a brother, sister, child, parent or partner.
France, 1790. The woman who would later become known as Joséphine Bonaparte flees from Martinique to Paris to escape slave rebellions in the Caribbean. Her husband left her years ago; she is on her own. Upon arrival, it also appears unsafe for her and her children in Paris; the French Revolution has begun. When she is accused of being against the revolution, she ends up in one of the infamous prisons where royalist prisoners await their trip to the guillotine. Meanwhile, a young soldier, Napoleon, is seeking happiness and recognition in his own way. Like Joséphine, he is lost in a rapidly changing world. When their paths cross, history changes.
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