by Marente de Moor · Querido · tapa dura · ISBN 9789021438429
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«De Nederlandse maagd» is the historical novel by Marente de Moor, published by Querido in hardback (297 pages, in Dutch).
Summer 1936. Janna, a young Dutch fencer, arrives at an isolated estate near Aachen to train with Egon von Bötticher, a hussar marked by the First World War. Fascinated by her master, she tries to unravel the bond between Egon and her father as Nazi Germany bursts into that world of student duels.
Novel originally published in 2010. Winner of the AKO/ECI Literatuurprijs 2011 and nominated for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2017.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, set in 1936 Germany with a backdrop of fencing and war trauma.
