01 / Chapter 1
“In his latest novel, Geert van der Kolk has embarked on a thematic adventure.”
Thomas Verbogt in Het Parool
Copywriter Alfons Hoefjes is getting more and more strange assignments. Instead of brochures and advertisements, he is asked for bold love letters and an erotic family history.
02 / Chapter 2
Geert van der Kolk
Geert van der Kolk was in the US for a long time and now lives in Paris. His connection with the Netherlands and Dutch society is still strong. His novel The Boys (2019) was inspired by his time at latin school in Apeldoorn.
03 / Chapter 3
Books
Option 2
04 / Chapter 4
My story
In the fall of 1980 I traveled by train from Holland via Osnabrück and Hanover to East Berlin. I was twenty-six at the time. On the way, I read The Berlin Stories of the English writer Christopher Isherwood, who was traveling the same route exactly fifty years earlier, when he was twenty-six.
05 / Chapter 5
Chronicle
