Arnon Grunberg
Blauwe maandagen
Blauwe maandagen image
Published
1994
Publisher
Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam
Language
Dutch
ISBN
90-388-2670-2

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.

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Editions


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.