Still Reading 'Turkish Delight' In the #MeToo Era? Yes, But With Reservations
Fifty years ago, Jan Wolkers shook the Netherlands to its foundations with 'Turkish Delight'. Aleid Truijens blushed when she reread his taboo-breaking classic novel.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Fifty years ago, Jan Wolkers shook the Netherlands to its foundations with 'Turkish Delight'. Aleid Truijens blushed when she reread his taboo-breaking classic novel.
In his bestseller, the award-winning Dutch non-fiction writer searches for answers to anthropology’s most fundamental questions.
This writer is so authentically and imperturbably himself, that one is inclined to see him as a ‘type'. Something of an exotic in his own country, since these days you don't often see anyone so typically Dutch, so Christian through and thr...