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Review: Storm Surge (Hardcover)

Margriet de Moor told in this exciting novel written the vitae of two closely related sisters, both of whose life due to a devastating natural disaster suddenly takes a dramatic turn. In winter 1953 is one of the two women - Lidy - together with around 2,000 other people on the coast of Holland died. There is raging at the time an all-ending storm burst. Due to adverse meteorological conditions, as well as over-age-dyke construction of the polder is flooded Zealand. Now overtaken the quaking sea, back to what the people there had wrung painfully over many generations of the North Sea.

No stone will remain unturned. Everything is broken. People and animals die. Schließlich zerbröselt das Land aufgrund der herein brechenden Wassermassen. De Moor erzählt einfühlsam von den letzten Stunden Lidys und der Personen mit denen sie zufällig diese Zeit teilt. Die Autorin zeigt die Angstfreiheit dieser Menschen und deren Bereitschaft miteinander die sich pausenlos neu stellenden komplexen Probleme anzupacken. Auf diese Weise füllt sie den Begriff "Schicksalsgemeinschaft" beeindruckend mit Inhalt.

Eigentlich hätte Armanda anstelle ihrer Schwester Opfer der Ereignisse werden müssen, denn Lidy entschließt sich spontan zum Geburtstagsfest des Patenkindes ihrer Schwester nach Schouwen- Duiveland zu reisen, damit diese stattdessen zu einer Fete nach Amsterdam gehen kann. Als Folge der Events changed the life planning of student Armanda completely. She marries the man of her deceased sister and draws on her daughter. Although Armanda by Sjoerd gets two children of her own, her daughter, her sister is always the next. Nadja is always their real child. Armanda feels that it lives basically Lidys life and personality to exist in 1953, has ceased. It is depressing. The marriage to Sjoerd breaks because of her sister's spirit remains ever present.

Armanda is secondary to the unfortunate victims of the storm surge, because she believes the right to determine their own existence to have forfeited after her sister were unfairly As has been torn out of life. Armanda can not stop himself responsible for the death of her sister to feel, perhaps because they believe ultimately more self-determination as to any sort of foreign disposition. This is Armandas tragedy! A thought-provoking, good story!