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Author
Yael van der Wouden
Born 1987 Tel Aviv
2 works
2024–2025 across 2 dated works
Dutch writer
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2 works
Author
Born 1987 Tel Aviv
Dutch writer
2 works
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A buttoned-up Dutch spinster does little more than inhabit her dead mother's house, which came into the family's possession, fully furnished, in 1944. Her brother drops off his latest flame, an extroverted bleach-blonde, to stay for a few weeks when he's sudd…
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