29-12-14 20:00 – Source: Het Parool
AFTh. van der Heijden. © Bart Koetzier
A novel about a plane crash in eastern Ukraine, shortly after the downing the MH17. His imagination was A.F.Th. gripped
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His book or about flight MX17 but does everything in mind the disaster that claimed 298 victims in mid-July.
The novel, which must appear autumn 2015, is not about this or disaster victims, almost AFTh. van der Heijden to say. “It will lead to misunderstandings, for someone the story but also had access. Though I also wish to address such painful subject. That’s not just the point.
“A novel is for me an opportunity to say something about the situation in the world, the old confrontation between East and West. Of course I can not release too much about the story, it is still in development. But that is the point. “
The book is also a tribute, his son was killed in 2010, Tonio and this year at the age of 101 deceased father Natan Rotenstreich. To him, the main character, a war photographer named. “I read about the disaster and suddenly saw Tonio for me, four years older. He was a photographer and studied media & amp; culture. I saw in him someone who had gone into the practice, journalism, as a war photographer. “
Olaf Koen
” I have great admiration for war photographers. I have studied all of Pierre Crom, as I have read the reports of Olaf Koen. ” The story is a war photographer decapitated by IS over, which James Foley is to recognize that the great example of Natan is from the book. “There were a few things together. A week after the disaster, my father died. He came from Ukraine, from western Ukraine true, but he told me a lot about farming and about Putin. He loved everything. Years ago he outlined Putin for me, one question: would you buy a used car from him
“That plane crashed so in his country of origin?. He was dying, and I saw my son back to me. I have always found him terribly with his background, his entire family was murdered by the Nazis, his only grandson lost. There were many things together. That needed something from me. “
Another week later, beginning of August, he saw the story for themselves. “As soon as I even me a little ashamed that the imagination in such a horrible event taking control. Then I started making myself believe that it is never a book would be. “
An experiment
” In “EenVandaag” I saw that the relatives are in favor of a memorial to the victims, a nice initiative. Perhaps a novel is also regarded as a monument, I already have that pretense at all.
“It is my intention to clarify the situation which already five and a half months so sore back our lies. Will recognize there are layers of reality, but it is still a novel, with its own logic. But I do not rule out that I got inside will come up with its own solution to the riddle: what is the circumstances, who are the culprits and the heads of the disaster ‘
Van der Heijden is not strange? placing novels against the backdrop of the recent past. But it is the first time that he so briefly follows the reality, at a time when investigations are still ongoing and in Russia and Ukraine still everything can change. “If on a parallel track. That I have never experienced. It is almost an experiment “
(By: Bart Zoelen).
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