Contents (29)
- Marga Mingo
- Contents
- About the Author
- One day
- Kloosterlaan
- The stars
- The bottle
- The photos
- It happened
- Camping mugs
- Sealed
- In safekeeping
- Homecoming
- In the basement
- Sabbath
- The girl
- Lepelstraat
- The men
- The men
- Bitter herbs
- Separated
- The crossroad
- The bed
- The top
- A new name
- Epilogue
- Translator’s note
- About the translator
- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Jeannette K. Ringold
About the translator
Jeannette K. Ringold has translated more than 20 fiction and non-fiction works by Dutch authors into English. She was born in the Netherlands and now lives in California.
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
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First published by Ebury Press in 2020
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature
Originally published with the title Het bittere kruid in the Netherlands in 1957 by
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker/Daamen (now Uitgeverij Prometheus), Amsterdam
Text copyright © Marga Minco 1957
English translation copyright © Jeannette K. Ringold 2020
The rights of Marga Minco and Jeannette K. Ringold to be identified as the author and translator of this work, respectively, have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Cover design by Head
ISBN: 978-1-473-57701-5
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