The Boat Runner

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781432842673
  • 04 oktober 2017
  • 551 pagina's
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Devin Murphy

Devin Murphy is de kleinzoon van professor Hans Jonker, een van de oprichters van de TU Eindhoven, die na de oorlog naar Canada emigreerde. Hij heeft voor dit boek veel historische research gedaan en verwerkte deels zijn familiegeschiedenis in zijn verhaal. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Devin Murphy, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Devin Murphy.

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In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II.


Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem.


On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their Uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. But conflict still seems unthinkable, even as the boys' father naively sends his sons to a Hitler Youth Camp in an effort to secure German business for the factory.


When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos. The Boat Runner follows Jacob over the course of four years, through the forests of France, the stormy beaches of England, and deep within the secret missions of the German Navy, where he is confronted with the moral dilemma that will change his life—and his life's mission—forever.


Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with precise, elegant language, The Boat Runner tells the little-known story of the young Dutch boys who were thrown into the Nazi campaign, as well as the brave boatmen who risked everything to give Jewish refugees safe passage to land abroad. Through one boy's harrowing tale of personal redemption, here is a novel about the power of people's stories and voices to shine light through our darkest days, until only love prevails.






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Hardcover
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04 oktober 2017
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551
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Devin Murphy
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Thorndike Press Large Print

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Large type / large print edition
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147 mm
Product hoogte
33 mm
Product lengte
218 mm
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147 mm
Verpakking hoogte
33 mm
Verpakking lengte
218 mm
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680 g

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9781432842673

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