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Mazel Tov

Mazel Tov
  • Author(s): J S Margot
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

When 20-year-old student J.S. Margot took a tutoring job, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family’s Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules – ‘never come on a Friday, never shake...

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
  • Author(s): Rudy Rucker
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Brussels, Rome
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Sixteenth century Europe as depicted on Peter Bruegel’s canvasses. A street festival, skating, hunting in the snow are everyday life. Rucker tells the story of an artist, whose own life is little known. We follow the artist from the...

Austerlitz

Austerlitz
  • Author(s): W.G. Sebald
  • Location(s): Liège, Antwerp
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW2

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later...

On Black Sisters’ Street

On Black Sisters’ Street
  • Author(s): Chika Unigwe
  • Location(s): Antwerp
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

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