Otto De Kat: 8 books

Book cover of De eeuw van Dudok

De eeuw van Dudok

vijf romans, één familie

by Otto de Kat
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 10, 2016

De vijf romans van Otto de Kat - 'Man in de verte', 'De inscheper', 'Julia', 'Bericht uit Berlijn' en 'De langste nacht' - werden lovend ontvangen in zowel Nederland als het buitenland. Op een terloopse manier, steeds weer een andere episode uitlichtend, heeft De Kat met dit vijfluik - met epiloog...
Book cover of De langste nacht
by Otto de Kat
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Sinds de bevrijding woont Emma Verweij in een straat die tijdens de oorlog een bastion van vriendschap en liefde is geworden. Ze trouwt er, krijgt kinderen en ‘vergeet' de tijd waarin ze met haar eerste man in nazi-Berlijn woonde. Nu, 96 jaar oud, bereidt zij zich voor op het einde van haar leven....
Book cover of News From Berlin
by Otto de Kat
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

In War time Europe Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a "good" German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Briefly...
Book cover of Freetown
by Otto de Kat
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 28, 2018

Maria is onafhankelijk, onconventioneel en niet bang. Zij probeert een verklaring te vinden voor de verdwijning van Ishmaël, een vluchteling uit Sierra Leone die als krantenjongen bij haar aan de deur kwam en zeven jaar bleef. Hij was als een zoon voor haar. Vincent is psycholoog. Ooit hadden Maria...
Book cover of Julia
by Otto de Kat
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011

One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting on the bombing of the north German town of Lübeck. The list of the dead includes the highlighted...
Book cover of The Longest Night
by Otto de Kat
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily Mail Since the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries...
Book cover of The Figure In The Distance
by Otto De Kat
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011

Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the century - the Six Day War, the Prague Spring - and collected friends, lovers, and passions every step of the way. As he...
Book cover of Man on the Move
by Otto de Kat
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

In January 1935, Rob leaves Holland for Cape Town, a young man thirsting for adventure and wanting above all to leave his family's suffocating hold on him behind. After a brutal stint in the diamond mines, he sails to Java to join the Dutch forces in their last stand against the invading Japanese....
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