OLIVER

OLIVER
jaar:
2015

genre:

young adult roman, 220 p.

uitgever:

Querido

leeftijd:

15+
prijzen:
Gouden Lijst 2016 (Beste jeugdboek)
Genomineerd voor de Dioraphte Literatour Prijs 2016

OLIVER is a novel about the sixteen-year old Norwegian boy Oliver Kjelsberg, two years before he will meet the Dutch Tycho Zeling - so, two years before the events descibed in my novel THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASSLOVE. 
OLIVER has great parents, it's summer holiday, he is progressing in his biggest hobby: playing football (he's a goalkeeper), and he has a best friend, Bendik, who is also his nephew. Oliver is not a talker, but does he need to be? 
Well, in this book, all of a sudden his parent's marriage collapses, and within a day some more things happen that make the world seem a whole lot different than Oliver and Bendik always had believed. How do these two boys cope with the scope of events that they are forced to face?

- Dit boek kan apart gelezen worden, maar is tevens een prequel van DE DAGEN VAN DE BLUEGRASSLIEFDE (1999, geüpdatede versie 2015), en ook min of meer als vervolg op ONS DERDE LICHAAM (2006).
Waar DE DAGEN VAN DE BLUEGRASSLIEFDE vooral 'liefde' als thema heeft en ONS DERDE LICHAAM 'vriendschap', zou je kunnen zeggen dat OLIVER vooral gaat over 'familie'.