Nine Open Arms
By: Benny Lindelauf ; translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen ; jacket and interior art by Dasha Tolstikova
Contributors: Tolstikova, Dasha, illustrator; Nieuwenhuizen, John, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781592701469
Subjects: History; Romanies; Fiction; Single-parent families; Grandmothers; Family life
Work titles: Negen Open Armen
Description: When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
Notes: "First published in 2004 in Dutch in the Netherlands by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. as Negen Open Armen."