How Tortot Lost His Fish's Heart
This is a book that deserves a large international audience for its subject matter alone. With a great deal of humour, Benny Lindelauf describes a pointless war of the kind that could have taken place not all that long ago, not all that far away. Are we reading about the American civil war? Or are these scuffles and skirmishes Napoleonic? For the soldiers, it does not really matter: at the appointed time, they meet up to fight, and sometimes one army loses, sometimes the other.
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Benny Lindelauf
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Benny Lindelauf proves himself to be an unrivalled stylist – and, once again, one of the best writers for young people that we have.
NRC Handelsblad
Grimness, gravity and humour keep one another nicely in balance. […] A timeless and ageless parable about the absurdity of war.
De Standaard
Benny Lindelauf
Benny Lindelauf (b. 1964) writes theatre texts and children’s books that stand out for their narrative power and stylistic mastery.