A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. For more options...

Min Thein, a lawyer in a sleepy provincial town in Burma, has struggled to avoid confrontation with his country's military regime, despite defending its victims. But when he incurs the wrath of the district commander, he is shadowed, intimidated and thwarted - he loses his country, his wife and his sight. For more options...

One of the most widely read authors in the Netherlands, A.C. Baantjer continues to captivate a growing audience of American readers. For more options...

In 1889, Dutch society was enthralled by "Eline Vere", published in installments in the newspaper, which minutely described the conventions, manners and hypocrisies of society with richness of description and vivid characterizations. Eline Vere and her sister Betsy are wealthy young socialites living in The Hague in the 19th century. For more options...

An autobiographical novel about a boy raised in a Rotterdam slum by a mother too independent to marry his father. The boy eventually joins a law firm and rises in his profession despite his father's efforts to hold him back. For more options...

'Fermat's Last Theorem' meets the Coen Brothers in a story about maths that borders the lands of insanity and divine inspiration. . For more options...

In this novel by a writer from the Netherlands, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their family life perfect until their young son is murdered. Their ways of coping with the horror of the event are markedly different, and threaten to drive them apart. For more options...

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. For more options...

On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia, there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the twentieth century brings to his country. For more options...

A novel that probes moral devastation in the wake of the slaughter of an innocent family by the Nazis in retaliation for the association with a Dutch collaborator.. For more options...

July 1942: I catch myself making all sorts of minor but telling adjustments in anticipation of life in a labour camp. Last night when I was walking along the quay beside him in a pair of comfortable sandals, I suddenly thought I shall takes these shoes along...... For more options...

Recalling Celine in its scatological and vitriolic style, and the work of William Gaddis and David Foster Wallace in its clear-sighted satire and sheer exuberant excess, "Summer in Termuren" is a landmark of twentieth-century literature, and its greatest comedy of desperation. Spanning two world wars and anticipating a catastrophic future, Louis Paul Boon captures the history of the twentieth century by exploring the twisted, corrupt lives of the inhabitants of one small town - a microcosm for the changing world.. For more options...

A brilliantly paced psychological thriller, 'The Reunion' is a chilling story of just how difficult it can be to cope when the past comes back to haunt you...Sabine is twenty-four years old and has just returned to work following a nervous breakdown. Unsurprisingly, life in the office has changed since she left, and Sabine is now the brunt of her colleagues' cruel jokes, as well as the main topic of office gossip. For more options...

How could this happen to me? Simone is a wife and a mother. She's 34 years old, and together with her husband Eric and their two small children, she has left the hustle and bustle of Holland for a remote village in the south of France. For more options...

This magnificent epic has been compared to works by Umberto Eco, Thomas Mann, and Dostoyevsky. Harry Mulisch's magnum opus is a rich mosaic of twentieth-century trauma in which many themes -- friendship, loyalty, family, art, technology, religion, fate, good, and evil -- suffuse a suspenseful and resplendent narrative. For more options...

In Amsterdam, in 1758, a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt, she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. For more options...