Literaire roman, novelle (15)
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A courtyard full of finds
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
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Reducing the ecological footprint
1. The flowing of water 2. Refuge 3. Rural wisdom
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
This is a fantastic tale of how humans and nature can work together to manage the Earth. In this case, it is about water. The story takes place around a small area with a dry wadi, which can turn into a raging torrent during torrential rains.
That is the outer side of the story.
What matters to the collaborating people in this fiction is that nature itself gets a say. Globally, this already happens here and there, but nature’s interests are represented there by humans.
It is called a «Parl...
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Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
2023 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in
Saigon in power.
We meet Ruben in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a script said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam.
It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents: a small skeleton.
Accompanying the che...
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Oldtimers
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
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Boreal Bushcraft
Living in the wild from the wild
2023 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
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Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
2023 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
It is a love story.
About a boy, blind, but free as a bird.
And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free.
With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free.
It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d’Azur, during the summer of 1957.
As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well.
Has it really happened?
Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pi...
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Steam
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
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The Godly Gardener
Beauty and fraud in Toscane
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
Sometimes, where people are familiar together, it happens that someone joins in, causing short circuits and patterns get disrupted.
It started with the garden.
An estate/hotel was looking for a gardener (m/f).
A man with an aura of wildness came.
A day later there was a young woman at the door, with all the required qualifications and her autistic toddler.
There was the owner’s secret: a letter from the bank.
There was pressure to participate in an absurd sewage project. Absurd? Not if you ...
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When the climate goes feral
Coming of age in a tipping world
2023 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
All the sawmill’s forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley.
Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside.
She rescues some survivors, who become her new family.
The world is tipping and they must make it on their own.
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Dickie
2024 || Paperback || Ewout Storm van Leeuwen || Artscience
A child runs away from the funeral of her mother. A father she does not know.
A lonely man brings her food and they become friends.
She personifies an inheritance more fatal than the incriminating information her late mother hid somewhere. A foreign secret service is on her trail.