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\nPuinvrouw in Berlijn \/ Rubble Woman in Berlin<\/strong>
\nPublished in 2009 by Vrijdag<\/span>
\nFirst novel. On the longlist for the Gouden Uil 2010.<\/p>\n

Puinvrouw in Berlijn<\/em> is the first novel by Hilde Keteleer. The title refers to the German word \u2018Tr\u00fcmmerfrau\u2019. Christine Vandenbergy, a Flemish journalist, is working and living in Berlin. She falls head over heels in love with the both sensuous and enigmatic Gregor, and loses friends and work. In an intense game of attraction and rejection Gregor shows her around Berlin. Along with their efforts to find a common language, their talks revolve around their own history. The city but also language are almost the main characters in this novel. Berlin is the framework for the past, which appears, as does language, in bits and pieces – in shreds. Both their histories restrict the characters\u2019 freedom to the extent that it becomes a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n

 
\nDe brug van dromen. Onderweg naar het nieuwe Mozambique. \/ The Bridge of Dreams. Towards a New Mozambique<\/strong>
\nPublished by the Flemish International Cooperation Agency, written together with Emiel Vervliet<\/span><\/p>\n

 
\nOmheind \/ Enclosures<\/strong>
\nPublished in 2014 by Vrijdag<\/span>
\nA story on memory and remembrance in the Jordan desert.<\/p>\n

Lydia\u2019s memory is impaired by Alzheimer\u2019s. Now that she lives in the past, her son Thomas tries to uncover his real origins. His sister Petra\u2019s memories of their youth are very different, tainted as they are by her jealousy. Finally, Lydia\u2019s granddaughter Tommy, in the course of a love affair in Jordan, unearths her grandmother\u2019s story there, a story impacted by the political events of the time. In the process, she also learns that the word \u2018paradise\u2019 once meant\u2018walled enclosure\u2019. A walled enclosure – just like that around our memories. <\/p>\n