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Julia
Otto de Kat
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Description for Julia
Paperback. The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
From the moment he meets Julia, Christiaan Dudok is dangerously close to love. But their first date is interrupted by S.A. Brownshirts storming into the cafe. It is 1937, and Germany is heading for war and fanaticism. Chris, a Dutchman, is both transfixed and appalled by the effect of Hitler's manic oratory on the people of Lubeck.
The independence and freedom of thought that Chris finds so attractive in Julia leads her to emphatically reject the Nazi regime, and before long her courageous stance brings them both to the Gestapo's attention. Soon Chris is forced to make an impossible ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051110
SKU
V9780857051110
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99-50
About Otto de Kat
Otto de Kat is the pen name of the founder of Dutch non-fiction publishing house Balans, Jan Guert Gaarlandt, also a poet, novelist and critic. His prize-winning novels have been widely published in Europe, and Man on the Move was the winner of the Netherlands' Halewijn Literature Prize. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Cees Nooteboom, W.F. ... Read more
Reviews for Julia
An affecting study of regret . . . A compelling account of how conflicts tear apart lives
Lucy Popescu
Tribune
What is most striking in this novel is de Kat's use of the Dutchman's slightly distanced perspective to pinpoint what was most unsettling about this time: through him we register the terrible energy and torpor of a ... Read more
Lucy Popescu
Tribune
What is most striking in this novel is de Kat's use of the Dutchman's slightly distanced perspective to pinpoint what was most unsettling about this time: through him we register the terrible energy and torpor of a ... Read more