Rien Verhoef Books

Wilbur Larch, a physician, philosopher, obstetrician, and abortionist at St. Cloud's orphanage struggles through his relationship with his apprentice and surrogate son, Homer Wells.

Bat Katanga keert, na in Cambridge ter bestrijding van zijn impulsiviteit wiskunde en economie te hebben gestudeerd, terug naar zijn vaderland Oeganda. In een helikopter heeft hij zijn eerste en enige sollicitatiegesprek met generaal Samson Bazooka, minister van Energie en Communicatie onder het regime van Idi Amin. Bazooka heeft hem nodig om orde op zaken te stellen in het ministerie. Maar deze selfmade man die intellectuelen wantrouwt, zet zijn voormalig liefje Victoria op Bat om hem in de gaten te houden.

Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle aged college professor. Haunted by memoires of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and eventually illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve year old daughter, Dolorez Haze.Obseesed, he'll do anything, will commit any crime to posses his Lolita. But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? and what of Lolita? how long is she willing to be possessed?

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. " Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work." --"Los Angeles Times"