Tears from Brabant
Molenschot, Auguste van der This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a country that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (or women but al...