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De Bekoring
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Wikipedia article
'De bekoring' ("The temptation") is a 2006 novel by Dutch author Hans Mnstermann, which won him the AKO Literatuurprijs. It is the fifth in a series all featuring Andreas Klein as a central character, who is coming to terms with his and his family's past and present.
Summary
Andreas Klein, an 'alter ego' of Mnstermann's, was born the fourth of seven children to Marianne Petersen, a Dutch woman, who married the German Joachim Klein on 10 May 1940, the day World War II breaks out for the Netherlands. Andreas and his siblings grow up during the 1950s, a time of strict morality. Andreas is his mother's favorite and becomes a writer who documents his own family, and typically spoils or disrupts important family occasions by digging up the past: in 'De bekoring' this takes place the day his mother dies.
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Category:2006 novels
Category:21st-century Dutch novels
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