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Marcel
Marcel | Erwin Mortier
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Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy. With the help of his schoolteacher, he starts to discover the secrets of Marcel’s ‘black’ past. The story of his death on the Eastern Front for the sake of Flanders, and the shame this brought upon his family gradually become clear. Erwin Mortier unravels this shameful family past in an unusually sensitive and evocative manner.
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Marcel | Erwin Mortier
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Another literary trip to Belgium before our real life trip. This is a short, odd novel set (I think) in the 1970s, about a young Flemish boy observing various people around him as they go about their lives and sometimes talk about the war. And not much else. There are some nice turns of phrase, though.