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1) Beyond Sleep
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"In this moving tragicomedy," an academic hoping to secure his reputation gains "self-knowledge . . . achieved at great cost" in this literary novel. (Publishers Weekly)
Alfred Issendorf is a Dutch geology student obsessed with the thought of dying without a major scientific discovery to his name. Setting off on a geological expedition which brings him to Norway, Issendorf is out to prove that craters in the landscape are actually holes caused...
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During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck-a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance.
After the war, Osewoudt is taken...