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    His Name is David
    His Name is David
    His Name is David
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    His Name is David

    By Jan Vantoortelboom

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    ‘A tale of forbidden love set in WWI Flanders’ —The Guardian • His Name Is David was chosen as Book of the Month by the influential Dutch talk show DWDD, and has sold 30,000 copies in the Netherlands and Belgium.

    • Best-selling, prize-winning author

    • Historical setting—Flanders WWI

    • Great for book clubs. Book club discussion guide available.

    • Stefan Hertman’s award-winning book War and Turpentine is the only contemporary novel by a Belgian writer available in the US. Of the top 10 living Belgian writers, World Editions is publishing 5 – it’s a moment to celebrate a whole countries literary output

    • World Editions is planning a one-month Belgian-Literature promotion around Flander’s Day (July 11 2019) with a blog tour, review coverage, author interviews and events

    • The author has a tragic personal background which is reflected in his writing. When asked why he writes, this is what he answered: “It all started with the death of a mother. I was sixteen and hanging around, waking up and going to sleep in a dark house. The will to become someone or something had abandoned me and the very question of existential meaning was shoved down my throat the hard way. But I didn’t write back then. I read. And read. So I could breathe and forget. Only eighteen years later I picked up writing. Boy, did I like it. With one single act, the act of writing, I became someone and something and the question of the meaning of my existence got answered. I was named a writer at the age of thirty-six, but I became one the day my mother died.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Editions
    Release dateApr 16, 2019
    ISBN9781642860313
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