A bicycle racer named (like the author) Tim Krabbé enters a grueling race over the mountains, and while he rides he tries to figure out why on earth he is doing something so dangerous and pointless. Why, in other words, is he obsessed with it? The answer, he finds, has less to do with his love of the sport than with his hatred of something else.
A riveting psychological thriller in the tradition of Hitchcock and Stephen King--a tale of love and sorrow and obsession. Already the basis of a Dutch film hailed as "a small classic" by The New Yorker, this book has been remade into an American movie starring Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges, slated for release in early 1993.
On his way back to Amsterdam from New Zealand Jacques Bekker's plane is delayed, giving him four unexpected hours in Sydney. On a whim he decides to look up an old girlfriend - his first love. He arrives on Monique's street just as a stylish woman is loading a last suitcase into the back of a smart car. Thirty years vanish in the blink of an eye ...
Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station on their way to a holiday the South of France to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of fence post as a secret sign of their love: Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks ...
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