Literair Café

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Peter Buwalda (Brussels, 1971) broke through in 2010 with Bonita Avenue, which sold more than 400,000 copies and won five literary prizes. NRC declared the book one of the best Dutch-language novels of this century. In September 2025, De Jaknikker will be published, the conclusion of a trilogy that did not become a trilogy. Or is it? In The Yes Man we return to Ludwig Smit and Shell CEO Johan Tromp, whose complex bond comes under pressure on the Siberian Sakhalin Island. Characters, pasts and desires become entangled in a dangerous web of power and loyalty. Vicious, grand and full of understated humor: Buwalda's new novel once again shows how virtuoso he is at forging language, tension and tragedy into one whole. The 'new' Buwalda is always a literary experience.