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"Set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies and Nazi-occupied Holland, this lyrical novel delivers epic themes -- from the legacy of colonialism to the elusiveness of memory -- filtered through the rich imagination of a five-year-old girl."
"Set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies and Nazi-occupied Holland, this lyrical novel delivers epic themes -- from the legacy of colonialism to the elusiveness of memory -- filtered through the rich imagination of a five-year-old girl."@en
"The book begins with five-year-old Louise Benda, surveying enchanting surroundings. With an artistic writer mother and a dedicated doctor as a father, Loulou's imaginative and sensitive perspective makes the family home in the Dutch East Indies paradisiacal. The garden is inhabited by spirits and when the lights are turned off Loulou talks to 'night people' in a language of her own invention. The idyll is disturbed only by letters from a fearful unstable Europe. Evil is on its way. Furious and despairing in the face of the oncoming war, Loulou's father decides to go back to Europe to help his Jewish family. The whole family leaves paradise on a ship. They disembark in France, spend some time in Paris, and arrive in a cold and misty The Hague in the winter of 1939. Loulou's journey from her motherland to her fatherland is an unimaginable shock. She has been plucked from a light-hearted existence in the fresh air and set down in rooms 'behind lined curtains'. When war breaks out, things go from bad to worse. Loulou and her father have to go into hiding in the Dutch countryside. Miraculously they survive, even when the Germans torch the farmhouse they're hiding in. It's only in the book's last sentence that the little girl, emotionally broken and wrenched away from her world of enchantment, is free to commence her journey back."
"Het leven van een meisje tussen haar vierde en tiende jaar vlak voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nederlands Oost-Indië en later Nederland."
"Set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies and Nazi-occupied Holland, this luminous novel delivers epic themes filtered through the rich imagination of a young girl. Living with her parents on the island of Java in the late 1930s, five-year-old Lulu moves in a magical world of daydreams and island myths. But when one day Lulu innocently describes a scene she stumbled across late one night, the repercussions are felt for many years and across two continents. Called from the sumptuous tropics back to The Hague, with stops in Marseilles, Paris, and London along the way, Lulu's family is soon forced into hiding as the war approaches. A moving account of a childhood overwhelmed by history, The Song and the Truth is a profound meditation on how the paradox of memory'at once intransigent and elusive'shapes our lives. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"Het leven van een meisje tussen haar vierde en tiende jaar vlak voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nederlands Indië en later Nederland."

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"Domestic fiction"
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"Tekstuitgave"
"Electronic books"@en
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Vertalingen (vorm)"
"Belletristische Darstellung"

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"Het lied en de waarheid : [roman]"
"Das lied und die wahrheit"
"Das Lied der Wahrheit Roman"
"Das Lied und die Wahrheit : roman"
"The song and the truth"
"The song and the truth"@en
"Les jardins de Bandung"
"Les jardins de Bandung : roman"
"Het lied en de waarheid"
"Het Lied en de waarheid"
"Das Lied und die Wahrheit : Roman"

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