The Blessed Rita / Tommy Wieringa ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.

Nā:

Wieringa, Tommy, 1967- [author.]

Kaituhi:

Garrett, Sam [translator.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextReo: English Original language: Dutch Kaiwhakaputa: Melbourne, Vic. : Scribe, 2020Whakaahuatanga: 241 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781925713268
1925713261

Uniform titles:

De heilige Rita. English

Ngā marau:

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction.

DDC classification:

839.3137 23

Summary: Paul Krüzen lives with his father in an old farmhouse, not far from the German border. Where once his father took care of him, now he takes care of his father. It has been a long time since his beautiful, worldly-wise mother left them for the arms of a Russian pilot, never once looking back.Paul's world is changing- his small Dutch village is now home to Chinese restaurateurs, Polish plumbers, and Russian thugs. Saint Rita, the patron saint of lost causes, watches over Paul and his best friend Hedwiges, two misfits at odds with the modern world, while Paul takes comfort in his own Blessed Rita, a prostitute from Quezon. But even she cannot protect them from the tragedy that is about to unfold.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

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Fiction	Pātea LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	WIER (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2197515

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Originally published in Dutch: De Bezige Bij, 2017.

Paul Krüzen lives with his father in an old farmhouse, not far from the German border. Where once his father took care of him, now he takes care of his father. It has been a long time since his beautiful, worldly-wise mother left them for the arms of a Russian pilot, never once looking back.Paul's world is changing- his small Dutch village is now home to Chinese restaurateurs, Polish plumbers, and Russian thugs. Saint Rita, the patron saint of lost causes, watches over Paul and his best friend Hedwiges, two misfits at odds with the modern world, while Paul takes comfort in his own Blessed Rita, a prostitute from Quezon. But even she cannot protect them from the tragedy that is about to unfold.

Translated from the Dutch.

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