ONE

1996

       The famous and sometimes infamous Zandpad on the other side of the bridge has disappeared.  I walk through the new neighbourhood where it must have been when I used to roam around Winschoten.   I no longer recognize anything.  Yet I find just about the spot where the Sunday school room of the Reformed used to stand.  I stand still.  Then walk three houses further.  This must have been the leaning house where Joop Geel saw the light of day.

That’s how it starts, in a plot that jumps back and forth between Winschoten and Jordan Station,
with an RCMP officer as central character.
The original is in Dutch