Monday, September 23, 2013

Bookquest: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

9/22/2013 - American Book Center


Beyond Sleep by Willem Frederik Hermans

Beyond Sleep is a fictional work about a Dutch geologist's adventures in the Arctic. I'm not really selling it with that sentence, but it's very popular in Holland. It's noted for a sense of humor, like Vonnegut.

I picked it up at the "American Book Center," which had a huge selection of English language books. I saw some new releases that I hadn't seen anywhere else yet: Pynchon's new Bleeding Edge, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., and Enon. It had a small Dutch fiction section, with plenty of good options.

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