by Suzanna Jansen · Uitgeverij Balans · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789460036071
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«Het pauperparadijs» is the historical nonfiction work by Suzanna Jansen, published by Uitgeverij Balans in paperback (256 pages, in Dutch).
Suzanna Jansen reconstructs her family history to trace a century and a half of poverty in the Netherlands, from the re-education experiment of Veenhuizen. The narrative follows Roza Dingemans, mother of a family with debts and alcoholism in Amsterdam-Noord, who clings to her dignity and to the rumor of a noble origin and a lost inheritance.
The subtitle of «Het pauperparadijs» is 'Een familiegeschiedenis'; the work was originally published in 2008 and was nominated for the Libris Geschiedenis Prijs.
For readers interested in the social history of the Netherlands and in biographical accounts of poverty and identity.
