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“otto de kat”

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  • Julia

    by Otto de Kat ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting on the bombing of the north German town of Lübeck. The list of the dead includes the highlighted name of Julia Bender. As a young man finishing his studies in Lübeck in 1938, Christiaan is ... Read more

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  • The Longest Night

    by Otto de Kat ...
    Translated by Laura Watkinson ...
    A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries Bruno, they have two sons, and she determines to block out the years she spent in Nazi Berlin during the ... Read more

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  • Man on the Move

    by Otto de Kat ...
    Translated by Sam Garrett ...
    In January 1935, Rob leaves Holland for Cape Town, a young man thirsting for adventure and wanting above all to leave his family's suffocating hold on him behind. After a brutal stint in the diamond mines, he sails to Java to join the Dutch forces in their last stand against the invading Japanese. Here he finds Guus, a fellow countryman and the best friend he will ever have.Elegant, painterly and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability

    by D. Vassalos, M. Hamamoto, D. Molyneux, A. Papanikolaou ...
    Widely publicised disasters serve as a reminder to the maritime profession of the eminent need for enhancing safety cost-effectively and as a strong indicator of the existing gaps in the stability safety of ships and ocean vehicles. The problem of ship stability is so complex that practically meaningful solutions are feasible only through close international collaboration and concerted efforts by ... Read more

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  • The Figure In The Distance

    by Otto De Kat ...
    Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the century - the Six Day War, the Prague Spring - and collected friends, lovers, and passions every step of the way. As he ages, the memories of his past grow sharper, the events of his childhood more vivid - so vivid, in ... Read more

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  • News From Berlin

    by Otto de Kat ...
    In War time Europe Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a "good" German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a bombshell. A date and a codename ... Read more

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  • Walking the Woods and the Water

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    by Nick Hunt ...
    In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar . The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes ... Read more

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  • Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz

    by Maxim Biller ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave the home town to which, despite being in his late forties, he clings as if to a comforting blanket. So he retreats into his cellar (and sometimes hides under his desk) to write a letter to Thomas Mann: appealing to the literary giant to help him find a foreign publisher, in order that the ... Read more

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  • The Kraken Wakes

    by John Wyndham ...
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  • Long Way Back to the River Kwai

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    by Loet Velmans ...
    Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies-now Indonesia-where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave ... Read more

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  • The Department 19 Files: The Devil in No Man’s Land: 1917

    by Will Hill ...
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