by Judith Koelemeijer · Plataan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789058070913
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«Het zwijgen van Maria Zachea» is Judith Koelemeijer's family chronicle, published in paperback by Plataan (255 pages, in Dutch).
In 1989, the author's grandmother suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and stops speaking. Her twelve children take turns caring for her while she remains silent for eight years. Koelemeijer reconstructs the memory of a Catholic family: raised in the fifties and sixties, the siblings barely knew each other and hold very different memories of their childhood.
«Het zwijgen van Maria Zachea» received the Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek in 2002 and the Gouden Ezelsoor in 2003.
For readers interested in family memory, oral history and bonds between siblings.
