Blue Mondays
The novel’s protagonist – named Arnon, like its author – is a young man on the run: expelled from high school and on the outs with his ailing father, he spends his days and nights living a vagabond’s life on the streets of Amsterdam.
Then he begins to visit prostitutes and in his fumbling, guileless, tender encounters with them we see what’s beneath his nonstop comic riffling.
Read a chapter in English here.
Also available as an audiobook.
Nijgh & Van DitmarEditions
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 1994
ECI, Vianen 1994
Uitgeverij XL, Den Haag 1995
Bulkboek, Amsterdam 1998
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2000
Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen 2001
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2004. Special hardcover edition to celebrate 10 years Blue Mondays.
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2008
de Volkskrant, Amsterdam 2011
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2014
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2018. With a foreword by Nina Polak.
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam 2022.