by Annejet van der Zijl · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789021439044
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The life story of Waldemar, a 19-year-old Surinamese student, and Rika, a 40-year-old married Dutch woman, who fall in love in 1928, have a son (Sonny Boy), and start a boarding house in Scheveningen. During World War II, they take in Jewish people in their house. This moving story explores themes of love, race, and resistance during wartime.
Annejet van der Zijl is a well-known and widely read writer in the Netherlands. So far, she has written seven non-fiction books and one fiction book, most of which have become bestsellers. Her work has been awarded the Gouden Ganzenveer and the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts.
