Set in the Netherlands, Jaap Robben’s novel "Afterlight" is about an elderly woman’s work to discover what happened to her child. In the book’s present, Frieda is in her... Read More

Dutch journalist Pieter van Os’s "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the biography of Mala Rivka Kizel, the only person in her Orthodox Jewish family to survive the Holocaust, which... Read More

A boy becomes an unwitting caregiver as he navigates puberty in Jaap Robben’s coming-of-age novel "Summer Brother". When Brian is thirteen, his disabled older brother, Lucien,... Read More

The questions of love, marriage, and mortality come to life in Margriet de Moor’s poignant novel Sleepless Night. Suffering from insomnia, a woman wakes in the middle of the... Read More