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Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands. Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a winter blizzard with his young niece, Nina, in the deserted house of his late Uncle Herman. As they wait for the weather to improve, Nathan tells Nina the story of their forefathers - a family of clockmakers who came to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe and then emigrated to America before WWII. An extraordinary and rich family history emerges. An epic family saga, a Gothic novel gone haywire, a very human story and a chronicle of the twentieth century, In Babylon is already set to be a classic European novel. A piece of very solid, traditional storytelling combined with a very funny, sensual magical realism. A brilliant merging of the lightness of popular American writing and the depth of European literature.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: In Babylon
• Author: Marcel Moring
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780006551041
• ISBN: 0006551041
• ID: 04482818
• Publisher: FLAMINGO
• Weight: 313 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. May 2000

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