The renowned Dutch brain surgeon Jaap Hollander has retired, but still can’t find peace. Ever since his daughter disappeared in Israel ten years ago, he has returned each year to where it happened.
This time, he is unexpectedly asked during the trip to carry out an incredibly risky brain operation. He agrees, even though the chances of success are minimal, because not only the life of his powerful patient depends on it, but perhaps also a new clue leading to his daughter’s whereabouts.
 

What if Osama bin Laden had not been shot during the spectacular raid on his house in Pakistan? Exciting like a thriller by Frederick Forsyth, this novel blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Geronimo was the code word that the men of seal Team 6 were to use if they located Osama bin Laden. The commandos astonished the world with their spectacular operation. But did it really unfold as the official version would have us believe? In this novel, Leon de Winter plays a masterful game with that question.
Geronimo is also the story of Apana, an Afghan girl who develops a passion for Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the story of Jabbar, a Pakistani boy whose most precious possession is an old kitchen stool, a stool that could set the course of history off in a crucial new direction. Then there is the story of American excommander Tom Johnson, through whose compassionate eyes we view a world full of cunning and tragedy, a world that is at the same time magnificent.
Leon de Winter is the first author to call into question the entire official version of Operation Neptune Spear – in which Osama bin Laden was eliminated – in a high wire act of the imagination.
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Featured title in 10 Books from Holland (Dutch Foundation for Literature).

Paul de Wit has one obsession: He wants to correct history. And the history of his own family in particular. He thinks he has found his twin brother, who had been presumed dead, on the Place de la Bastille, of all places. This kindles in him the insane hope that he can reconcile himself with his own history after all.

›Serenade‹ is exciting, entertaining and witty, and at the same time concerned with serious issues. The story of a son who rediscovers his mother. And a disturbing book about the helplessness of all of us who follow the news, know about the terrible things that are happening in the world, and are unable to do anything about it. Anneke Weiss, in her middle seventies and long since widowed, has just rediscovered her lust for life and her desire to interfere in the life of her son Bennie, a would-be composer. Then the doctors diagnose cancer. Bennie insists that they don't inform his mother about her terminal illness. Life seems to be carrying on as usual, and Anneke even falls in love with the 77-year-old Fred Bachmann. Then suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, the elderly lady disappears without trace. The only hope is that she has gone off on one of her pleasure jaunts with which she is constantly surprising her son. But why doesn't she give any sign of life? Bennie and Fred set off to look for Anneke. When they find her it is not on the Champs-Elysées, but in the freight station in Split. What made Anneke embark on this »journey«? This novel, only superficially humorous and carefree, is about a trauma which can break out at any time.

The diplomat Felix Hoffmann is an unusual hero, grieving for his dead children, suffering from insomnia and searching for truth in the works of the philosopher Spinoza. Hoffmann reads Spinoza in his sleepless nights, stuffing himself with leftovers from dinners until the dawn breaks. Hoffman - appointed ambassador to Prague late in life - lands up in a word of secrets and double meanings; in the end escape is his only way out.

»What is a Jew doing in a Porsche on the morning of the Sabbath!« are the words that reach Max Breslauer's ears when, driving through the centre of Amsterdam with a hundred kilometers per hour, he runs over a Hasidic boy on his way to the synagogue. A question which triggers further questions: »Who am I really? A Jew? A goy? What is my life about?« Max, 36 years old, 90 kilogrammes in weight and heir to a textile imperium called SuperTex, lands on the couch of a woman psychoanalyst and tells her the story of his life…

The writer Leo Kaplan, almost forty, almost a millionaire, is an acrobat in adultery. Until things get too much for his wife Hannah. Kaplan must recognize that not only did he forfeit his marriage but also his creativity through his amorous escapades. It is not until a surprising reunion with his teenage sweetheart that be begins to understand how he has become the one he is today. A moving novel about yearning and the search for one's own roots.