by Marente de Moor · Querido · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789021440293
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«De Nederlandse maagd» is the historical novel by Marente de Moor, published by Querido in paperback (297 pages, in Dutch).
In the summer of 1936, Janna, an 18-year-old Dutch fencer, arrives at an isolated estate near Aachen to train with Egon von Bötticher, a German master and former hussar wounded in the First World War. Amid student duels and twin brothers, Janna seeks to unravel the secret linking her father to Egon as Nazism advances.
The work received the AKO Literatuurprijs 2011 and was nominated for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2017.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative with an interwar atmosphere.
