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I really enjoyed the first, oh, 80 percent of this book, about an older guy who is suddenly confronted with a grown-up son he didn't know was his. The son is a right bastard, of the type we're dealing with a lot in Holland at the moment: right-wing, rude, violent, petty, jealous. He and his cronies and the family dynamics he causes are hugely funny and entertaining.
But I'm not so sure about the last bits of the book, where an entirely new plot line from-the-past suddenly turns up. I can see why the author needed it, and I don't know how he should have solved the story in the absence of this bit, but still - it sort of fizzled. For me.
Still, I'd recommend this book to my lefty pinko Dutch friends who want a quick, entertaining read, I think.
15-12-2011
