Hendrik Groen

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

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The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¿ Years Old . . . 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje, the woman who mak… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4059-2401-6
EAN: 9781405924016
Produktnummer: 19776563
Verlag: Penguin
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'112 KB

Über den Autor

Hendrik Groen started his diaries on the literary website of Torpedo magazine. He says about his work: 'There's not one sentence that's a lie, but not every word is true.' His first diary, the international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old has been translated into over thirty languages and is being adapted for television. His second diary went straight to number 1 in the Netherlands. He is currently working on a standalone novel.Hester Velmans (Translator) Hester Velmans is the author of two popular children's novels and a translator specializing in modern fiction. Her translation of Renate Dorrestein's A Heart of Stone won the Vondel Prize for Translation and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her translation of Lulu Wang's The Lily Theater was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.Her children's book Isabel of the Whales now has a sibling: the second in the Whales Series, Jessaloup's Song (age 10 and up).