by Jan Siebelink · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023427469
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«Knielen op een bed violen» is the novel by Jan Siebelink, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (445 pages, in Dutch).
A Dutch horticulturist, marked by his childhood and his father's religiosity, falls under the influence of a Calvinist preacher. The novel follows his turn towards extreme religious fervour and the pain it causes his wife and family, in a story that is also a great love between two ways of understanding life.
Part of the Ulysses klassieken collection. Originally published in 2005; this edition is from 2007. Winner of the AKO Literatuurprijs.
For readers of Dutch literature and literary fiction interested in the dilemmas of faith, family and religious conscience.
Jan Geurt Siebelink is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier.
