Frans van Deijl

Frans van Deijl

Frans van Deijl (1957) is reporter with the Dutch weekly magazine HP/De Tijd. Besides Monday Monday he wrote the satirical serial Don Diks, about the heroic adventures of a newspaper journalist. His debut novel The Young Lover was published in 2008, and two years earlier he wrote the critically acclaimed short story collection War Famine, for which he obtained a nomination for the Debuting Authors Prize. In 2005 he published the hilarious Diary of an Unemployed Person.

Monday Monday

For 10-year-old Timon there are many reasons to be worried. Even though he grows up in a quiet suburb, the world seems to be on fire. Mr. Slijgers, his school teacher, obviously hates him. He wants to play in the school soccer team, but doubts whether he is good enough. And this horrible song Monday Monday, that he keeps hearing on the radio, makes it even worse as it reminds him of that traumatizing spring day, when he saw a dead man. As if this isn’t enough, death keeps playing a dominant role in the young boy’s life. In his room up in the attic, with a view on the moon, Timon learns that nothing is what it seems and that, in spite of everyhting, life is wonderful.

 

Monday Monday is a moving novella full of atmosphere, which describes the turbulent 1960s through the eyes of a child growing up.

Bountymeisje

New novel. Publication date: May 2012