His bright blue eyes fail, his memory sputters, but he can talk like no other. In throbbing sentences that fit in a book. Aster Berkhof is 95 when we last speak to him and a literary phenomenon. His beloved Nora is still alive at that moment. The two will not be separated from each other until March 2020. Six months after his wife, Aster also dies. After a career that spanned eight decades and produced 105 novels. Nobody imitates him, even if he did not want to know. “I am an ancient man who is forgetting.”
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“There you are. I had already given up hope. Nevertheless, a warm welcome. ”
He is bent over at the door and looks at the floor. Aster Berkhof, neither Lodewijk Van den Bergh on June 18 …
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