Book discussion: The Angel Maker (Stefan Brijs)

Zaanstad Women's Meet-up is starting a book club!

For our first meeting, we will be talking about "The Angel Maker" (2005) by Stefan Brijs. This book was originally written in Dutch and has been published in a few different languages.

Accolades: Gouden Uil Young Readers’ Prize, Quinquennial Prize for fiction of the Royal Academy of the Dutch Language and Literature, Prix des Lecteurs Cognac, Euregio-Schüler-Literaturpreis

If you are unable to get a copy of the book, please send me a message.

Location: Cafe Fabriek. It is a 10-min walk from the Zaandam station, through the shopping street.

Description:

An imaginative, intriguing and dark fairytale.

After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest - and suspicion - as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom share the same physical deformity as the doctor - a hare lip.
These children are very quiet and are rarely seen in the village. But with time, and a series of apparently miraculous cures and tales of the wife he lost, the doctor begins to win the villagers over. He hires an ex schoolmistress, Charlotte, to look after the children. But the longer she works with the doctor, the more she begins to suspect that the children - and the doctor - aren't what they seem...