For a lost soldier

Title: For a Lost Soldier

Author: Rudi van Dantzig

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789029513715

Condition: Fair

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Description:
'Kissing someone means you hold them; Wolt had held me stiffly in his arms as if he wanted to crush me. Why did he do that, he didn't even know me... I squeeze my eyes shut and try to sleep. Not to think about 'that'... Is it bad if someone has an erection?' Everything is confusing for Jeroen, who in 1945, as an eleven-year-old Amsterdam boy, experiences the liberation in the Frisian countryside. The American soldier Wolt forces him into intimate physical contact. The soldier hurts him, Jeroen is defenseless, but also feels proud, chosen. When he sees a procession of Canadian veterans entering Amsterdam almost forty years later, the memory of the lost soldier confuses him again.
'The reader is grabbed by the throat; Van Dantzig's prose can be strangling.' - Diny Schouten in VRIJ NEDERLAND

'His intensity and hidden sorrow make him hard to surpass.' - Wim Sanders in HET PAROOL

Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, 1933) is a world-famous choreographer. In For a Lost Soldier he tells his own poignant war memories. For a Lost Soldier was awarded the Geerijan Lubberhuizen Prize in 1986.