9781642860375_

Winner of the European Union Prize in Literature

Addictive (...) Jannas plight is that of Jane Eyre and the narrator of du Mauriers Rebecca. She is a young woman who falls in love with an older man so damaged he cannot possibly be good for her. Fencing and love. Battle and desire. The combination transforms Jannas attempts at love into a match of skill, a game that leaves one bloody and scarred, giving the novel a cruel beauty. (...) One of the most delicious novels Ive read in ages Danielle Trussoni for the New York Times Book Review

Marente de Moor worked as a correspondent in Saint Petersburg for many years and wrote a book based on her experiences. The Dutch Maiden sold over 70,000 copies in the Netherlands and was awarded the prestigious AKO Literature Prize along with the European Union Prize for Literature. Her work has been translated into ten languages.

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Winner of the European Union Prize in Literature

"Addictive (...) Jannas plight is that of Jane Eyre and the narrator of du Mauriers Rebecca. She is a young woman who falls in love with an older man so damaged he cannot possibly be good for her. Fencing and love. Battle and desire. The combination transforms Jannas attempts at love into a match of skill, a game that leaves one bloody and scarred, giving the novel a cruel beauty. (...) One of the most delicious novels Ive read in ages" Danielle Trussoni for the New York Times Book Review

Germany, 1936. Nazism is taking hold. Janna, a young Dutch girl, has been sent to the embittered aristocrat Egon von Btticher to train as a fencer. Btticher is as eccentric as his training methods, yet the pupil soon finds herself falling for her mastera man tormented by a wartime past in which Jannas father is implicated. Enthralled and disturbed by this dark world with its strange codes of honor and cruel rites of passage, Janna battles to understand her own desires and her part in the strange relationship between her father and the man who has become her obsession. A masterfully written story that sparkles and effervesces.

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