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2004 Longlist

A Father’s Affair

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

What happens to the father of a 13-year-old son, when he discovers that he has been infertile all his life?
On his quest to discover the biological father of his son, Armin takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. From the day he first met the love of his life, Monika, to the moment, only five years later, when he loses her to a fatal illness; from the tortuous and hilarious moments of adult relationships, to the intimate, tender rapport with the little boy he believed to be his son – Armin is forced to reconsider everything he has ever believed in….

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Karel
van Loon

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Sam
Garrett

SAM GARRETT has translated some 50 novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.

SAM GARRETT has translated some 50 novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.

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