Literary Scout

Category: Dutch Fiction

Leer Me Alles Wat Je Weet (Teach Me Everything You Know) by Hanna Bervoets (2023)

Danielle – ‘Daniel’ – de Koster is dead. She died unexpectedly two years ago, an event her younger girlfriend Jodie cannot understand. Daniel had helped patients –particularly women – diagnose their historically under-researched diseases. To some she was a hero; others thought her mad. Jodie, haunted by grief, tracks down Daniel’s friends and former lovers in […]

De Man met Duizend Gezichten (The Man with a Thousand Faces) by Lex Noteboom (2023)

The Man with a Thousand Faces is a complex thriller that weaves together three storylines and timelines. In 2034, Sophie discovers a locked laptop belonging to her mother, Noëlla, in Portland, Oregon, while trying to uncover the source of her suppressed memories and PTSD. In the second storyline, set between 2019 and 2023, an unnamed […]

De slaap die geen uren kent by Sebastiaan Chabot (2020)

Kurt Kuschfeld, a man in his fifties, lives in Reichsburg, Germany, in 1950. He works nights maintaining the street lighting in the little town, and lives in the tower of the train station. He is tired of life, and plans to ask his physician to help him end his life. After the war, the city […]