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Een Meisje Van Honderd
Een meisje van honderd vertelt het levensverhaal van Moemie, een meisje dat dingen ziet die anderen ontgaan. Dat is haar gave en haar noodlot. Moemie verliest haar ouders en familie door de rituele zelfmoord van het vorstenhuis op Bali in 1906. De rest van haar leven is ze op zoek naar iets of iemand die het gemis van haar verwanten kan opvullen. Ze wordt opgenomen in een gezin dat haar helderziendheid nodig heeft om geesten uit hun huis te verjagen.
Meisjes Uit Het Dorp
Tegen het decor van het dorp in de jaren vijftig en zestig, herinnert Ramona zich haar puberteit, jonge hartstocht, en de onverwerkte trauma’s van haar ouders. Koos ze voor loyaliteit voor familie of voor vriendschap, en hoe balanceerde ze tussen aanpassing en behoud van eigenheid?
Geen Gewoon Indisch Meisje
De zusjes Sonja en Zon zijn in vele opzichten elkaars tegenpolen. Vooral de manier waarop ze met hun afkomst omgaan. Sonja is aangepast aan Holland en wil dan ook niet herinnerd worden aan haar Indische afkomst. Zon daarentegen droomt weg bij verhalen van haar vader over vroeger.
A sign of life
She said, "I'm not dying, I'm flying away."
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
her good hand
The complicated, intimate bond between mother and daughter.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Lust & Love
Early in their relationship, Eve and Adam promise each other to grow old together. They discover exactly what that promise means by trial and error. Eve's inexperience in the sexual field and her sincerity about it reveal the deepest layers of female eroticism. Lust and love are not always synchronized. Despite violent storms, their marriage has lasted for thirty years, until the lust is severely undermined by prostate cancer and their matured love is severely tested. What made it worth sharing four decades with each other? The eroticism, ecstasy, seduction, the forbidden desire and the pain that Eve and Adam experience make Lust & Love a sensual, gripping and psychological page turner.
More than manly
The narrator of More than male becomes mesmerized at a young age by the eight years older Etna. She is from Amsterdam with Italian parents, and his cousin's girlfriend.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Intertwined Borders
After her father's death, eighteen-year-old Senne travels from Jakarta, where she grew up, to the Netherlands to delve into her grandfather's life. Her brother Dian is currently wandering around Indonesia to refute his mother's accusations against their late father. Senne and Dian are children of their time: the internet is a second home, and the threat of terrorism is a given. As they plunge into the past, they are confronted with the limits of their own conscience and that of their immediate family.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
The Dogs of Slipi ebook.jpg
A young Indian woman travels to Indonesia with her husband and child to visit relatives of her parents. The encounters with the uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces romanticized in her father's stories are disappointing. She doesn't find what she imagined in Jakarta and life in an overcrowded city in a developing country is not what she imagined. Nevertheless, a friendship develops in Jakarta that persists over the years and becomes ever closer: a new aunt and uncle. Just like in No ordinary Indian girl and Fathers of significance, Marion Bloem is not guided by nostalgia, but describes Indonesia as it is today. The dogs of Slipi is not only a story about the memories of the parents' generation of the old Dutch East Indies and the introduction to modern Indonesia, but above all it is a novel about conscience. With her, a completely new sound enters our literature. She may be an Indian writer, more importantly, she turns out to be a racial writer. -Hans Warren It's a wonderful book. Trust me, Fathers of Significance will go down in history as a book of significance. - Joop van den Berg in Trouw
The Lie of the Cockatoo eBook
The Lie of the Cockatoo tells the story of four generations of women in a long letter from protagonist Melanie Fleur to her grandmother. She can entrust the secrets of her life to her because she is sure that her grandmother will not withhold them. Marion Bloem constructs Melanie's history and identity from fragments of the lives of the grandmother, mother, aunts and other women from her youth. For example grandmother, the child of a Prussian soldier in Aceh and a Javanese maid; Aunt Melinda, who is already married off when she is thirteen; the always cheerful Aunt Jossa who effortlessly resigns herself to being single; Aunt Fuut, who is afraid of the forces in her own body and fanatically clings to her faith. The mother is the victim of a strict upbringing and tries to drill her daughter. Each and every one of these women contribute to the character of Melanie, who is passionately in love with life. In an authentic way, Marion Bloem evokes the image of a woman of forty who, at the turning point in her life, tries to create order in her childhood memories, her marriage, her relationships, her erotic experience. The novel is lyrical, intense, direct and charged. However, humor and self-mockery are not lacking.
The Taste of the Unknown ebook
Marion Bloem, author of highly successful books such as No ordinary Indian girl, Long journeys short loves, The lie of the cockatoo, Fathers of significance and the recently published collection of travel stories Mosquitoes people elephants makes an original contribution to an increasingly more versatile work.
Games4Girls eBook
"Perhaps, as is often said, I was indeed the instigator of the gang of girls that terrorized the village of H. from '75 to '88. Thanks to my father. Despite my father. In honor of my father." I only wanted one thing, and that was to lead, to be a heroine for my friends, to defy all the norms and values of others, and to rule the world that I made up myself." A name cannot be heavy enough. It is the name from which you your willpower drains. Without the x, I might have given up sooner." Zohra van Dam, who calls herself Xohra, has a father who suffers from a serious illness. She flees into the friendship, and seduces her friends Nouchka and Sonja to all kinds of, sometimes destructive adventures. Their lives should be one big game with the aim of becoming famous. One day, when she realizes what she is doing, Zohra suddenly abandons her friends. Ten years later she appears on the internet with Xohra.nl and a game4girls in order to fulfill the promise to remain faithful to each other forever. Visit Xohra's website: www.xohra.nl. And also: www.games4girls.nl www.marionbloem.nl The press wrote about Far from family of Marion Bloem: Far from family is [?] perhaps the best novel that Marion Bloem has written." - Johan Diepstraten in De Stem Ver Van Familie is a novel with hidden passions, with mysterious silent powers and at the same time down to earth.” - André Matthijsse in Haagsche Courant Tragic touches are not lacking in this family history, in which an infectious optimism, however, predominates. Far from family is a delightful novel." - Joris Gerits in De Standaard der Letteren
Een Meisje Van Honderd
Een meisje van honderd vertelt het levensverhaal van Moemie, een meisje dat dingen ziet die anderen ontgaan. Dat is haar gave en haar noodlot. Moemie verliest haar ouders en familie door de rituele zelfmoord van het vorstenhuis op Bali in 1906. De rest van haar leven is ze op zoek naar iets of iemand die het gemis van haar verwanten kan opvullen. Ze wordt opgenomen in een gezin dat haar helderziendheid nodig heeft om geesten uit hun huis te verjagen.
Meisjes Uit Het Dorp
Tegen het decor van het dorp in de jaren vijftig en zestig, herinnert Ramona zich haar puberteit, jonge hartstocht, en de onverwerkte trauma’s van haar ouders. Koos ze voor loyaliteit voor familie of voor vriendschap, en hoe balanceerde ze tussen aanpassing en behoud van eigenheid?
Geen Gewoon Indisch Meisje
De zusjes Sonja en Zon zijn in vele opzichten elkaars tegenpolen. Vooral de manier waarop ze met hun afkomst omgaan. Sonja is aangepast aan Holland en wil dan ook niet herinnerd worden aan haar Indische afkomst. Zon daarentegen droomt weg bij verhalen van haar vader over vroeger.
A sign of life
She said, "I'm not dying, I'm flying away."
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
her good hand
The complicated, intimate bond between mother and daughter.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Lust & Love
Early in their relationship, Eve and Adam promise each other to grow old together. They discover exactly what that promise means by trial and error. Eve's inexperience in the sexual field and her sincerity about it reveal the deepest layers of female eroticism. Lust and love are not always synchronized. Despite violent storms, their marriage has lasted for thirty years, until the lust is severely undermined by prostate cancer and their matured love is severely tested. What made it worth sharing four decades with each other? The eroticism, ecstasy, seduction, the forbidden desire and the pain that Eve and Adam experience make Lust & Love a sensual, gripping and psychological page turner.
More than manly
The narrator of More than male becomes mesmerized at a young age by the eight years older Etna. She is from Amsterdam with Italian parents, and his cousin's girlfriend.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Intertwined Borders
After her father's death, eighteen-year-old Senne travels from Jakarta, where she grew up, to the Netherlands to delve into her grandfather's life. Her brother Dian is currently wandering around Indonesia to refute his mother's accusations against their late father. Senne and Dian are children of their time: the internet is a second home, and the threat of terrorism is a given. As they plunge into the past, they are confronted with the limits of their own conscience and that of their immediate family.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
The Dogs of Slipi ebook.jpg
A young Indian woman travels to Indonesia with her husband and child to visit relatives of her parents. The encounters with the uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces romanticized in her father's stories are disappointing. She doesn't find what she imagined in Jakarta and life in an overcrowded city in a developing country is not what she imagined. Nevertheless, a friendship develops in Jakarta that persists over the years and becomes ever closer: a new aunt and uncle. Just like in No ordinary Indian girl and Fathers of significance, Marion Bloem is not guided by nostalgia, but describes Indonesia as it is today. The dogs of Slipi is not only a story about the memories of the parents' generation of the old Dutch East Indies and the introduction to modern Indonesia, but above all it is a novel about conscience. With her, a completely new sound enters our literature. She may be an Indian writer, more importantly, she turns out to be a racial writer. -Hans Warren It's a wonderful book. Trust me, Fathers of Significance will go down in history as a book of significance. - Joop van den Berg in Trouw
The Lie of the Cockatoo eBook
The Lie of the Cockatoo tells the story of four generations of women in a long letter from protagonist Melanie Fleur to her grandmother. She can entrust the secrets of her life to her because she is sure that her grandmother will not withhold them. Marion Bloem constructs Melanie's history and identity from fragments of the lives of the grandmother, mother, aunts and other women from her youth. For example grandmother, the child of a Prussian soldier in Aceh and a Javanese maid; Aunt Melinda, who is already married off when she is thirteen; the always cheerful Aunt Jossa who effortlessly resigns herself to being single; Aunt Fuut, who is afraid of the forces in her own body and fanatically clings to her faith. The mother is the victim of a strict upbringing and tries to drill her daughter. Each and every one of these women contribute to the character of Melanie, who is passionately in love with life. In an authentic way, Marion Bloem evokes the image of a woman of forty who, at the turning point in her life, tries to create order in her childhood memories, her marriage, her relationships, her erotic experience. The novel is lyrical, intense, direct and charged. However, humor and self-mockery are not lacking.
The Taste of the Unknown ebook
Marion Bloem, author of highly successful books such as No ordinary Indian girl, Long journeys short loves, The lie of the cockatoo, Fathers of significance and the recently published collection of travel stories Mosquitoes people elephants makes an original contribution to an increasingly more versatile work.
Games4Girls eBook
"Perhaps, as is often said, I was indeed the instigator of the gang of girls that terrorized the village of H. from '75 to '88. Thanks to my father. Despite my father. In honor of my father." I only wanted one thing, and that was to lead, to be a heroine for my friends, to defy all the norms and values of others, and to rule the world that I made up myself." A name cannot be heavy enough. It is the name from which you your willpower drains. Without the x, I might have given up sooner." Zohra van Dam, who calls herself Xohra, has a father who suffers from a serious illness. She flees into the friendship, and seduces her friends Nouchka and Sonja to all kinds of, sometimes destructive adventures. Their lives should be one big game with the aim of becoming famous. One day, when she realizes what she is doing, Zohra suddenly abandons her friends. Ten years later she appears on the internet with Xohra.nl and a game4girls in order to fulfill the promise to remain faithful to each other forever. Visit Xohra's website: www.xohra.nl. And also: www.games4girls.nl www.marionbloem.nl The press wrote about Far from family of Marion Bloem: Far from family is [?] perhaps the best novel that Marion Bloem has written." - Johan Diepstraten in De Stem Ver Van Familie is a novel with hidden passions, with mysterious silent powers and at the same time down to earth.” - André Matthijsse in Haagsche Courant Tragic touches are not lacking in this family history, in which an infectious optimism, however, predominates. Far from family is a delightful novel." - Joris Gerits in De Standaard der Letteren
Een Meisje Van Honderd
Een meisje van honderd vertelt het levensverhaal van Moemie, een meisje dat dingen ziet die anderen ontgaan. Dat is haar gave en haar noodlot. Moemie verliest haar ouders en familie door de rituele zelfmoord van het vorstenhuis op Bali in 1906. De rest van haar leven is ze op zoek naar iets of iemand die het gemis van haar verwanten kan opvullen. Ze wordt opgenomen in een gezin dat haar helderziendheid nodig heeft om geesten uit hun huis te verjagen.
Meisjes Uit Het Dorp
Tegen het decor van het dorp in de jaren vijftig en zestig, herinnert Ramona zich haar puberteit, jonge hartstocht, en de onverwerkte trauma’s van haar ouders. Koos ze voor loyaliteit voor familie of voor vriendschap, en hoe balanceerde ze tussen aanpassing en behoud van eigenheid?
Geen Gewoon Indisch Meisje
De zusjes Sonja en Zon zijn in vele opzichten elkaars tegenpolen. Vooral de manier waarop ze met hun afkomst omgaan. Sonja is aangepast aan Holland en wil dan ook niet herinnerd worden aan haar Indische afkomst. Zon daarentegen droomt weg bij verhalen van haar vader over vroeger.
A sign of life
She said, "I'm not dying, I'm flying away."
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
The moment Marion Bloem hears that her sister is seriously ill and will die within a few months, she is unable to continue writing the book about her Indonesian childhood. When she died, it seems as if her sister took the memories with her to the grave. After months of mourning, Bloem picks up the pen again and starts writing A sign of life.
As a child of Indonesian parents, Marion Bloem grew up taking for granted black and white power, ghosts and wandering souls. At the sickbed of loved ones, she asks them to let her know what it's like there, on the other side. Did she get answers? Bloem had to let go of her Dutch skepticism.
A sign of life is a book about mourning, the fragility of existence and everything that involves death, in which Bloem does not shy away from humor.
her good hand
The complicated, intimate bond between mother and daughter.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Melanie, Sonia's mother, has memory problems. 'She really shouldn't live on her own anymore, it's becoming life-threatening,' says the neighbor. As her mother took care of Sonia, she now takes care of her. They have a strong bond, but not without complications, partly due to Melanie's difficult childhood, her Japanese camp past and the period of revolution in which she had to give up many of her girl dreams. Her good hand is a candid, respectful portrait of a brave, colorful woman. Marion Bloem took her own mother as a starting point for this.
Lust & Love
Early in their relationship, Eve and Adam promise each other to grow old together. They discover exactly what that promise means by trial and error. Eve's inexperience in the sexual field and her sincerity about it reveal the deepest layers of female eroticism. Lust and love are not always synchronized. Despite violent storms, their marriage has lasted for thirty years, until the lust is severely undermined by prostate cancer and their matured love is severely tested. What made it worth sharing four decades with each other? The eroticism, ecstasy, seduction, the forbidden desire and the pain that Eve and Adam experience make Lust & Love a sensual, gripping and psychological page turner.
More than manly
The narrator of More than male becomes mesmerized at a young age by the eight years older Etna. She is from Amsterdam with Italian parents, and his cousin's girlfriend.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Etna awakens sexuality in him and immediately reveals himself as the love of his life. He is totally obsessed with her and none of the women he has had the most passionate affairs with over the course of his life can compete with her. He learned the importance of eroticism from Etna. Also in his career as an actor, he is the embodiment of sexuality.
But at the age of 50, his masculinity comes under serious pressure from prostate cancer. The narrator is confronted with painful questions: what is the meaning of a sexual life if it is no longer possible to enjoy sex?
In More than masculine, Marion Bloem writes in a dazzling, compelling way about a man who threatens to succumb to his own desires. It is an overwhelming and at the same time intimate novel about lust, the great desire, infinite love and its destructive power.
Intertwined Borders
After her father's death, eighteen-year-old Senne travels from Jakarta, where she grew up, to the Netherlands to delve into her grandfather's life. Her brother Dian is currently wandering around Indonesia to refute his mother's accusations against their late father. Senne and Dian are children of their time: the internet is a second home, and the threat of terrorism is a given. As they plunge into the past, they are confronted with the limits of their own conscience and that of their immediate family.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
Interwoven Borders tells a story about the triangular relationship between the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Netherlands, based on a family history. The common thread is the story of grandfather, an ex-KNIL soldier, who regrets on his deathbed that he did not choose the independence of his native country sixty years ago.
Marion Bloem is the chronicler of the Dutch East Indies. Without nostalgia, but with compassion, she described in earlier novels the Indies milieu of which she herself is a part. She also described the new Indonesia. Yet the way in which she connects the above three worlds in Intertwined Borders is innovative. Flower, a true cosmopolitan, pushes her boundaries with Intertwined Frontiers.
The Dogs of Slipi ebook.jpg
A young Indian woman travels to Indonesia with her husband and child to visit relatives of her parents. The encounters with the uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces romanticized in her father's stories are disappointing. She doesn't find what she imagined in Jakarta and life in an overcrowded city in a developing country is not what she imagined. Nevertheless, a friendship develops in Jakarta that persists over the years and becomes ever closer: a new aunt and uncle. Just like in No ordinary Indian girl and Fathers of significance, Marion Bloem is not guided by nostalgia, but describes Indonesia as it is today. The dogs of Slipi is not only a story about the memories of the parents' generation of the old Dutch East Indies and the introduction to modern Indonesia, but above all it is a novel about conscience. With her, a completely new sound enters our literature. She may be an Indian writer, more importantly, she turns out to be a racial writer. -Hans Warren It's a wonderful book. Trust me, Fathers of Significance will go down in history as a book of significance. - Joop van den Berg in Trouw
The Lie of the Cockatoo eBook
The Lie of the Cockatoo tells the story of four generations of women in a long letter from protagonist Melanie Fleur to her grandmother. She can entrust the secrets of her life to her because she is sure that her grandmother will not withhold them. Marion Bloem constructs Melanie's history and identity from fragments of the lives of the grandmother, mother, aunts and other women from her youth. For example grandmother, the child of a Prussian soldier in Aceh and a Javanese maid; Aunt Melinda, who is already married off when she is thirteen; the always cheerful Aunt Jossa who effortlessly resigns herself to being single; Aunt Fuut, who is afraid of the forces in her own body and fanatically clings to her faith. The mother is the victim of a strict upbringing and tries to drill her daughter. Each and every one of these women contribute to the character of Melanie, who is passionately in love with life. In an authentic way, Marion Bloem evokes the image of a woman of forty who, at the turning point in her life, tries to create order in her childhood memories, her marriage, her relationships, her erotic experience. The novel is lyrical, intense, direct and charged. However, humor and self-mockery are not lacking.
The Taste of the Unknown ebook
Marion Bloem, author of highly successful books such as No ordinary Indian girl, Long journeys short loves, The lie of the cockatoo, Fathers of significance and the recently published collection of travel stories Mosquitoes people elephants makes an original contribution to an increasingly more versatile work.
Games4Girls eBook
"Perhaps, as is often said, I was indeed the instigator of the gang of girls that terrorized the village of H. from '75 to '88. Thanks to my father. Despite my father. In honor of my father." I only wanted one thing, and that was to lead, to be a heroine for my friends, to defy all the norms and values of others, and to rule the world that I made up myself." A name cannot be heavy enough. It is the name from which you your willpower drains. Without the x, I might have given up sooner." Zohra van Dam, who calls herself Xohra, has a father who suffers from a serious illness. She flees into the friendship, and seduces her friends Nouchka and Sonja to all kinds of, sometimes destructive adventures. Their lives should be one big game with the aim of becoming famous. One day, when she realizes what she is doing, Zohra suddenly abandons her friends. Ten years later she appears on the internet with Xohra.nl and a game4girls in order to fulfill the promise to remain faithful to each other forever. Visit Xohra's website: www.xohra.nl. And also: www.games4girls.nl www.marionbloem.nl The press wrote about Far from family of Marion Bloem: Far from family is [?] perhaps the best novel that Marion Bloem has written." - Johan Diepstraten in De Stem Ver Van Familie is a novel with hidden passions, with mysterious silent powers and at the same time down to earth.” - André Matthijsse in Haagsche Courant Tragic touches are not lacking in this family history, in which an infectious optimism, however, predominates. Far from family is a delightful novel." - Joris Gerits in De Standaard der Letteren
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