The Boy Between Worlds

A Biography

Ranked #54 in Dutch, Ranked #65 in Barcelona

This is the emotionally stirring story of unlikely lovers who brave the bigotry of their era, only to be victims of the even larger forces of history at work in World War II. The plight of Anna (a lively and charismatic woman) and her much younger second husband Waldemar (an immigrant from the Dutch colony of Suriname), and the fate of their only child, Waldy, after his parents are murdered in the Nazi concentration camp for the crime of harboring Jews in their boarding house is unforgettable. Waldemar is unique as a biracial young man in post WWII Netherlands—and his search for his own path... more

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