Yvonne Keuls
Autor de Mevrouw mijn moeder
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Yvonne Keuls
Vriendengedoe 21 copias
Mevrouw mijn moeder. Indische tantes 9 copias
Annie Berber en het verdriet van een tedere crimineel & Het verrotte leven van Floortje Bloem (1997) 3 copias
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Beestjes 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Keuls, Yvonne
- Nombre legal
- Keuls-Bamberg, Yvonne
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-12-17
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Nederland
- País (para mapa)
- The Netherlands
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Batavia, Dutch East Indies
- Ocupaciones
- writer
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- Obras
- 54
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 1,011
- Popularidad
- #25,500
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 26
- ISBNs
- 138
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 1
However, Mevrouw mijn moeder is not a book for people who like wallowing in colonial nostalgia. The book is much more a description of an elderly lady growing very, very old, and all problems associated with living to such a high age, such as declining mental and physical health.
Mevrouw mijn moeder is largely very funny, because the mother appears as a somewhat tyrannical person, who insists to the very last to remain independent, and do as many things as possible by herself. The despair is often more with the (grown-up) children, than with the old lady herself.
Set against the colonial past of the Dutch East Indies, this just gives the book a different, other, dimension, and possibly, not many books of this kind have been written about this group of people, which is literally disappearing into the shrouds of history.
I liked this book much more than I had expected. This new edition came out in November 2022, when Mevrouw mijn moeder was selected for the National Reading Week, Nederland Leest. It was published with a foreword by Susan Smit.… (más)