Background
About half of them form a generational novel sequence that follows the life of a baby boomer named, the son of a Dutch mother and a German manitoba
About half of them form a generational novel sequence that follows the life of a baby boomer named, the son of a Dutch mother and a German manitoba
Münstermann has a doctorate in theatrical studies and has worked at an academy in Maastricht since the 1980s, and from 1990 to 1995 he was a coordinator in actor training. He has also written a number of novels together with Jacques Hendrikx, under the pseudonym January Tetteroo. Was seen as an alter ego of Münstermann"s by critics including Elsbeth Etty.
Like Münstermann, Klein"s mother is from Arnhem.
Her maiden name is Marianne Petersen, and she marries the German Joachim Klein on 10 May 1940, the day World World War II breaks out for the Netherlands, with the Germans invading the country. Their marriage appears devoid of love.
Andreas is the fourth of seven children who grow up beginning in the 1950s, a time of strict morality.
Andreas is his mother"s favorite and becomes a writer who documents his own family, and typically spoils or disrupts important family occasions by digging up the past and announcing the results of his personal investigations—in Het gelukkige jaar 1940 he spoils his youngest brother"s birthday, and in De bekoring the day his mother dies.