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    October 2, 1972

    Dimitri Verhulst is a celebrated author from the Low Countries, whose work is translated into over 20 languages. His extensive oeuvre spans novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, and plays, all marked by a distinctive style and profound insight into the human condition. Verhulst fearlessly explores the complex and often harsh realities of life, with a style often described as raw yet piercingly humane. His ability to capture the essence of human suffering while finding glimmers of hope makes him a significant voice in contemporary literature.

    Dimitri Verhulst
    De zomer hou je ook niet tegen
    Problemski Hotel
    Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
    The Misfortunates
    Christ's Entry into Brussels
    The Latecomer
    • 2016

      The Latecomer

      4.1(227)Add rating

      Désiré Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Désiré is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he's faking his memory loss. And as if there weren't reasons enough to opt out of the modern world, it would be worth it just to see Rosa Rozendaal again - the love of Désiré's youth, the one who got away. But dementia isn't all fun and games. There's a former war criminal hiding out in the home; once-beautiful Rosa might be too far gone to return Désiré's ardour; and our hero soon begins to suspect he might not be the only one in Winterlight who's acting a part ... A tender love story of demented minds and honourable hearts, and a razor-sharp satire of the indignities of old age and the callousness of caregiving

      The Latecomer
    • 2015

      De zomer hou je ook niet tegen

      2.3(12)Add rating

      Pierre is een beginnende zestiger en ontvoert een mentaal gehandicapte jongen van vijftien naar de Provence. Daar zal hij de jongen het verhaal vertellen over de liefdesrelatie die hij met zijn moeder had, hoe die tot stand kwam, over haar intense kinderwens en zijn twijfel over zijn rol als vader. Uiteindelijk zal hij het ook moeten hebben over hoe die prachtige en passionele relatie eindigen kon, en wanneer de mentaal gehandicapte jongen werd verwekt.

      De zomer hou je ook niet tegen
    • 2014
    • 2013

      The Misfortunates

      • 199 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.7(84)Add rating

      Sobriety and moderation are alien concepts to the men in Dimmy's family. Useless in all other respects, his three uncles have a rare talent for drinking, a flair for violence, and an unwavering commitment to the pub. And his father Pierre is no slouch either. Within hours of his son's birth, Pierre plucks him from the maternity ward, props him on his bike, and takes him on an introductory tour of the village bars. His mother soon leaves them to it and as Dimmy grows up amid the stench of stale beer, he seems destined to follow the path of his forebears and make a low-life career in inebriation, until he begins to piece together his own plan for the future...In this semi- autobiographical novel, Dimitri Verhulst brings his shambolic upbringing to life, with characteristic warmth, colour, and wit.

      The Misfortunates
    • 2010

      Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.6(143)Add rating

      Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation, practising their music, and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. When Mr Verona died, the locals might have expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village.

      Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
    • 2005

      Problemski Hotel

      3.5(1971)Add rating

      “ Problemski Hotel is an extremely fascinating book in which the daily life of asylum-seekers is related in an inimitable way . . . A profound portrayal of a group of people with no future.”— De Standaard der Letteren A comic novel on a very serious subject. Dimitri Verhulst, an investigative journalist, had himself locked up in the asylum-seekers center at Arendonk for several days for a Flemish magazine. He then wrote a magazine article, but the experience would not let go of him. He wrote this comic, unabashedly politically incorrect novel, which is told from the perspective of asylum-seeker Bipul Masli, a press photographer from Somalia. The action takes place in an asylum-seekers center in Belgium in the final weeks of 2001.

      Problemski Hotel