The storm
By: by Margriet de Moor ; translated [from the Dutch] by Carol Brown Janeway.
Contributors: Janeway, Carol Brown.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780307264947
Subjects: Storm surges -- Netherlands -- Fiction; Sisters -- Netherlands -- Fiction; Disaster victims -- Netherlands -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Verdronkene.
Description: On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down on the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The author interweaves the stories of two sister, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief-strewn aftermath.
Notes: Originally published in the Netherlands as De Verdronkene in 2005.