Belgium

Books set in Belgium.

Hyperpolitik
We Were Forbidden
El libro de las hermanas
Canticle
Het geschenk
Code Name Sapphire
Wolf
Psychopompe
Premier sang
33 Place Brugmann
The White Lady
The Omega Factor
Autobiografie van mijn lichaam
Dius
L'impossible retour
I Who Have Never Known Men
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Stupeur et tremblements
War and Turpentine
Het verdriet van België
Bruges-La-Morte
The Lady and the Unicorn
On Black Sisters Street
Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)
Kaas
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Dirty Snow
De helaasheid der dingen
De engelenmaker
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
Nooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansHersenschimmen by J. BernlefThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischEline Vere by Louis Couperus
Great Dutch Books
348 books — 131 voters
Kruistocht in spijkerbroek by Thea BeckmanDe brief voor de koning by Tonke DragtKoning van Katoren by Jan TerlouwPluk van de Petteflet by Annie M.G. SchmidtKinderen van Moeder Aarde by Thea Beckman
Children's and YA fiction in Dutch
429 books — 153 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Europe Minus Men and English
858 books — 233 voters
Kaas by Willem ElsschotLijmen / Het Been by Willem ElsschotThe Angel Maker by Stefan BrijsThe Lion of Flanders by Hendrik ConscienceHet verdriet van België by Hugo Claus
Best Belgian books
164 books — 30 voters


King Albert I of Belgium
“ Having a proper sense of her duty, and the means to carry it out, Belgium has mapped out her own course, and intends to keep to it. It entails a policy of humanity and progress. To a nation whos only aim is justice, the mission of colonization can only be a mission of high civilization: a small nation proves it greatness by carrying it out faithfully. Belgium has kept her word. ”
― Albert I of Belgium

Eugène Napoléon Beyens
“ But it would not be reckless to say that from the start the King dreamed of founding a Belgian colony. Many times I have heard him say, when the Independent State emerged from its swaddling clothes like a newborn baby trying to walk: "I work there for Belgium". ...more ”
― Eugène Napoléon Beyens

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