by Kees van Beijnum · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023496007
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«De offers» is the novel by Kees van Beijnum, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback, in Dutch.
In the Tokyo of 1946, Dutch judge Rem Brink takes part in the Tokyo Tribunal, where the main Japanese war criminals are tried. While trying to understand a devastated country, he meets the soprano Itchiko, orphaned by the bombings. Between them arises a secret and dangerous love that will lead them to a mountain village marked by hidden war crimes.
Novel longlisted for the Libris Literatuurprijs 2015; this edition was published in March 2016.
For readers of literary fiction about the Second World War and postwar Japan.
Kees van Beijnum is a Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam, where his mother had a bar near the Zeedijk. Before he became a writer, he was a journalist. He made his debut as a novelist in 1991 with Over het IJ, a non-fiction novel about a murder case in Amsterdam.
