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Book Title: Locked
Record Number: 1846
Author: Thom Kleiss
Author Bio: Thom Kleiss is pursuing an international career with a multinational company, and has been based in Switzerland, France, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and the USA. Married with two small children, he now lives and works in Switzerland. He has published articles in magazines and scientific publications, and self-published his first novel, "Westley Joustra's Schat", in Dutch, his native language. "Locked" is his first novel in English.
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Binding: Paperback Format
Author Email ID: thom.kleiss@bluewin.ch
Book Description:   When the young marine archaeologist, Isabelle de Kuyper left the big city to take on a challenging project in a remote lowland area, she had a more personal agenda. Feeling locked out of life, locked out of love, she hoped that in giving herself to her new assignment she would find release and a sense of order. In the wet, misty Lowlands, her task is to restore an historic but long-forgotten sea lock near the town of Kunder (Kuinre, The Netherlands). Once a thriving coastal settlement and centre of maritime trade, it is now landlocked dead water. Isabelle is drawn to her new surroundings, and not only because of her work. Her encounters with a number of male inhabitants of the region indicate that there is much more to the story of the lock than the dull, flat landscape and the endless rain would suggest. When a new road through the polder land is unexpectedly proposed over the site of a controversial World War II plane crash, she unravels a story of clan rivalry going back to the Middle Ages. Her investigations of the dry remnants of the island of Skorland (Schokland), now lying deserted in reclaimed polder land, reveal the troubled history of two families forced off the island in a mass evacuation. They never gave up their vendetta, but during the German occupation in WW II they forged an uneasy alliance in a dishonorable act of compromise that is concealed from history by a repressive conspiracy of silence. Looking back years later, Isabelle recalls the ceremony when the dry island of Skorland is triumphantly unlocked by a newly completed canal. But the canal was always intended for Kunder, which still remains locked. Has she identified so much with the story of Kunder that she, herself failed to find a way out?
Book Pages: 200
Price:   $15.95
Ebook Format Available   Pdf
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