'Such a love between those two, why shouldn't it be?' Jaap Robben writes in 'Zomervacht' about a mentally disabled boy.

by A Quattro Mani
7 October 201829 March 2022
8 min read
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His parents worked in an institution for mentally handicapped people, so Jaap Robben spent many an hour as a child putting curlers into boxes. It formed the seed for his novel Zomervacht. 'I wanted to write an exciting book with a disabled person as one of the main characters, because you hardly ever read about that world.'

Four years after his highly successful debut novel Birk, Jaap Robben (34) is back with Zomervacht, a wry and funny novel about a family with a scratch. S...

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A Quattro Mani

Photographer Marc Brester and journalist Vivian de Gier can read and write with each other - literally. As partners in crime, they travel the world for various media, for reviews of the finest literature and personal interviews with the writers who matter. Ahead of the troops and beyond the delusion of the day.View Author posts

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Four years after his highly successful debut novel Birk, Jaap Robben (34) is back with Zomervacht, a wry and funny novel about a family with a scratch. S...