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Publisher: Ambo|Anthos 

Shortlisted for Libris 2024 – shortlisted for Hans Vervoort prize 2024 –  nominated for Inktaap 2025

100,000 copies sold.

Rights Sold: Penguin Random House (English World), Arche Verlag (Germany), Solum Bokvennen (Norway), Otwarte (Poland), Icu (Bugaria), Nln (Czechia)

In 1989 twenty-one-year-old Marie leaves the Netherlands in a great rush. In Paris she starts work as an au pair for a bourgeois family and tries to build a new life for herself. The new language, the thankless work in a complicated family and the impressive but pitiless city offer her the
anonymity she longs for.

‘A highly ingenious novel.’ – **** NRC