by Renate Dorrestein · tapa dura · ISBN 9789025415723
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«Ontaarde moeders» is the novel by Renate Dorrestein, published by Poema & Pandora Pockets in hardcover (186 pages, in Dutch).
Meijken has not left home for thirty-seven years. The visit of her brother-in-law Zwier and his daughter Maryemma breaks her seclusion: Zwier wants to reunite with the woman who disappeared without explanation. That encounter forces her to question her role as an obedient daughter and to confront the secrets that have marked several generations of women.
The novel was originally published in 1992 and belongs to Dutch fiction.
Novel aimed at readers interested in Dutch fiction and in stories of mothers and daughters marked by family secrets.
Renate Maria Dorrestein was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
