{"id":225734,"date":"2021-02-05T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lotvekemans.nl\/a-wedding-dress-from-warsaw\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:09:18","slug":"a-wedding-dress-from-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lotvekemans.nl\/en\/a-wedding-dress-from-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"A wedding dress from Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Best Selling Book Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(148,166,191,0.34)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(7,59,122,0.4)&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;90deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position=&#8221;40%&#8221; background_color_gradient_end_position=&#8221;0%&#8221; background_enable_image=&#8221;off&#8221; background_blend=&#8221;multiply&#8221; min_height=&#8221;1001.3px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;100px|0|18px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.lotvekemans.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bruidsjurk.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;bruidsjurk&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/libris.nl\/boek\/?authortitle=lot-vekemans\/een-bruidsjurk-uit-warschau&#8211;9789059368279&#8243; align_tablet=&#8221;center&#8221; align_phone=&#8221;&#8221; align_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;5%&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;100%&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|6px|6px|6px|6px&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset3&#8243; box_shadow_vertical=&#8221;35px&#8221; box_shadow_blur=&#8221;70px&#8221; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-35px&#8221; box_shadow_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.6)&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;70px|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Nunito|600|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Abhaya Libre|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;70px&#8221; header_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Nunito|700||on|||||&#8221; header_4_text_color=&#8221;#bda392&#8243; header_4_letter_spacing=&#8221;2px&#8221; header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; min_height=&#8221;100px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-71px||-25px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;right&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;5%&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;100%&#8221; header_font_size_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; header_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; header_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #474747;\">A wedding dress from Warsaw<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Nunito, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; color: #666666;\">Novel<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Nunito||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;right&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;5%&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;100%&#8221;]Marlena is beautiful, lives in the Polish countryside and, much to her mother&#8217;s concern, is still not married. When she falls in love one day, her life changes radically. What follows is a journey that leads her to three men who each love her in their own way.   The first is Natan, a young American journalist, with whom Marlena experiences her first intense love. But when she turns out to be pregnant by him, Natan finds himself unreachable in America. The second is Andries, a Dutch farmer who marries Marlena through a marriage agency in an attempt to fill the void on his farm. When he learns that Marlena is pregnant by another man, he accepts her son as his own. The third is Szymon, a Jewish Pole who arrived in the Netherlands as a baby and travels to his parents&#8217; country for the first time in the early 1990s. There he meets the now-returned Marlena and her son Boris. With them, he tries to restore the missed sense of family and belonging. But everything changes when Boris decides to stop talking, Andries unexpectedly appears in Poland and a stack of letters from Natan surfaces.        About the desire to give your own direction to your life, award-winning playwright Lot Vekemans (Poison, Sister of, Truckstop) tells in her first novel with ever-surprising twists, and with an intensity, that has made her famous as a playwright.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;https:\/\/libris.nl\/boek\/?authortitle=lot-vekemans\/een-bruidsjurk-uit-warschau&#8211;9789059368279&#8243; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Order this book (in Dutch) &#8211; \u20ac 15,00&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;14px&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; button_bg_color=&#8221;#94a6bf&#8221; button_border_width=&#8221;8px&#8221; button_border_color=&#8221;#94a6bf&#8221; button_letter_spacing=&#8221;2px&#8221; button_font=&#8221;Nunito|700||on|||||&#8221; button_use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;30px|||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;right&#8221; 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_builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans|700||||on|||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#474747&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Respons<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; min_height=&#8221;462px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-48px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Wiebe&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f4f4f4&#8243;] Saturday, for the first time in my life, I read a book in one go. Why? How? I don&#8217;t understand it myself. Must have to do with the writing style and class of the author.     Who: Lot Vekemans , The wedding dress from Warsaw. Her debut novel. I already knew GIF and SISTER OF, two wonderful highly rated plays. In this book there are great dialogues that you could take right out of it to use on stage. Wow. I&#8217;ll soon read it again. Highly recommended. [\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Bookstore Veenstra, Amsterdam &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]Breathlessly read A Wedding Dress from Warsaw! Wonderful.[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Roodbeen Bookstore&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;A Wedding Dress from Warsaw&#8221; by Lot Vekemans, you have a gem in your hands! This is not to be missed -few words but a great story. We tip this as a summer book and absolutely love this wonderful story. A story about real people, life as it happens to you. Read this beautiful book and be touched by the sharp dialogues, beautiful sentences and a blistering story!    <\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Hans&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Read in two goes. Exciting composition! Beautifully tight language And moving.   <\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Anja &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Finished my reading in Berlin, with great pleasure! Nice book, drags the reader along, good dialogues, great characters; wonderful, sometimes painful (in the good sense) story with different perspectives. Go read that!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Raph &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]What an insanely good book!!! I am quite afraid of texts from people I have encountered before. The person often sticks to it so much. But with you, from the first word, the thing did it by itself. Very often I was really moved. Very long time not experienced like this. And indeed, wonderful dialogues, wonderful also that silence of the boy and genius in the end, the dialogue that you don&#8217;t catch anymore, behind that glass, in the snow. I will read it again in a while and for a long time, I no longer have to think about what to give people as a gift.[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Gerard &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>I loved the book &#8211; couldn&#8217;t put it down &#8211; beautifully described and you took me all the way with your story &#8211; what a fate and a wry balance between loving another and thinking of yourself &#8211; and being trapped inside yourself &#8211; if that isn&#8217;t fate, I admire your restrained emotions to slow down and not intervene &#8211; to describe instead of judge &#8211; and the incredible tricks and pitfalls of life.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-81px|||||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><strong>PRESS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Dagblad van het Noorden&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>A moving history of a lack of love and an excess of crying incapacity. In pared-down sentences but extremely evocative, Vekemans describes situations; in short, pithy dialogues, she exposes all the pain and impotence that characterise her characters. <\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;VPRO tv-guide&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]Nice pace, intriguing premise, believable dialogues. Vekemans&#8217; first novel tastes like more, because anyone who can write such dialogues should keep going.[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;ZIN Magazine &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]You don&#8217;t stop reading. You want more and more. Lot Vekemans can write. Although A Wedding Dress from Warsaw is her debut novel, she already has dozens of stage texts to her name. And you can tell. With few words, Lot Vekemans manages to evoke an enormous atmosphere. Effortlessly, you get images of what you read and empathise with the characters. Few ingredients result in passages that move you. Lot is a writer of few words, but with a big story.[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=&#8221;Passionate Magazine&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]The painstaking awkwardness with which the characters sometimes have conversations makes for some strong, tragicomic dialogue. The triptych in which Lot Vekemans has cast her novel also works well. Subtly, she builds tension and drives her pain-stricken characters to the limit where they do have to break the silence.[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.lotvekemans.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/paper.jpg&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Nunito|600|||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#474747&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;80px&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;Abhaya Libre|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_font_size=&#8221;60px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Nunito|700||on|||||&#8221; header_4_text_color=&#8221;#bda392&#8243; header_4_letter_spacing=&#8221;2px&#8221; header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;Nunito|600|||||||&#8221; header_6_text_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; header_6_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_6_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||40px|&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;slide&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;right&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;5%&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;100%&#8221; header_font_size_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; header_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; header_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>To be ordered through your book dealer (Dutch)<\/h4>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #474747;\">And wedding dress from Warsaw<br \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>novel<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #474747;\"><strong>Excerpt (in Dutch)<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Georgia||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; min_height=&#8221;14px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||1px|||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #474747;\">1.  <br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.8.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Georgia||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; min_height=&#8221;1053.2px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Het was juni en veel te warm voor de tijd van het jaar. We hadden de raampjes van de auto van buurman Wieslaw open gedraaid, maar nog sloeg de hitte je in het gezicht. Ik zat samen met mijn moeder en zus Irina op de achterbank, mijn ene bil schuin tegen de zijwand aangedrukt en mijn hoofd gebogen om niet bij elke hobbel tegen het dak te stoten. Naast me zat mijn moeder, onze heupen tegen elkaar aangeklemd als waren we op die plek aan elkaar vastgegroeid. Aan de andere kant van mijn moeder zat Irina, ze leunde af en toe naar voren om haar hoofd uit het raampje bij buurman Wieslaw te steken en gilde dan naar alle auto\u2019s die ons tegemoet kwamen. Moeder sloeg haar met de vlakke hand op haar blote benen, om haar tot stilte te manen. Tevergeefs. Op onze schoot lagen vijf geelwitte vlaggen. Voor mij zat buurvrouw Pola, wijdbeens en met haar handen op het dashboard. Ze schreeuwde naar buurman Wieslaw dat hij op moest passen, voor een gat in de weg, een koe langs de kant of een oude man die plotseling overstak.<br \/> Buurman Wieslaw zei niks. Hij vervloekte binnensmonds mijn vader die op het laatste nippertje besloten had om vandaag niet mee te gaan, waardoor we ineens met zijn allen in zijn piepkleine Fiat moesten. Mijn kleine geitje, noemde hij zijn auto liefkozend. Het ding was al vijftien jaar oud en in die tijd van rood naar vaalrood gekleurd, maar Wieslaw was er trots op alsof het de nieuwste Volkswagen was. Hij waste hem elke week en daarbij raakte hij zijn kleine geitje met meer tederheid aan dan ik hem ooit bij buurvrouw Pola heb zien doen.  <\/p>\n<p>We kwamen net terug van Warschau waar we de paus hadden gezien. Met de geelwitte vlaggen hadden we samen met duizenden mensen langs de kant van de weg staan zwaaien naar de pausmobiel.  Overal langs de weg klonk het \u2018Barka\u2019 uit luidsprekers die aan lantaarnpalen waren opgehangen. Het was het lievelingslied van de paus. Irina had uit volle borst meegezongen. Ik zong niet graag. Mijn moeder en buurvrouw Pola stonden onder een paraplu die hen beschermde tegen de felle zon.     Mijn moeder klaagde dat de paus veel te laat was en dat haar jurk te strak zat en dat ze amper wat kon zien. Buurman Wieslaw was op een groenstrook naast de weg op de grond gaan zitten en schilde een peer. Wat hem betreft mocht het hele circus zo snel mogelijk weer voorbij zijn.  Mijn vader en mijn broer Milosz waren thuisgebleven. Zij hadden de paus twee jaar geleden nog gezien. Moeder had toen niet meegekund vanwege een verstuikte enkel. Bij elke stap gilde ze het uit van de pijn. Het was gebeurd toen ze het trapje naar de kelder afliep om aardappelen te halen. Honderdduizend keer al was ze dat trapje afgelopen om aardappelen te halen, of wortelen, of kool. En nu stapte ze mis. Ze slaakte een kreet en lag onder aan de trap in de kelder. Milosz was thuis geweest. Hij droeg haar naar boven en wilde de dokter halen. \u2018Geen dokter,\u2019 zei mijn moeder. Milosz drukte zachtjes op haar enkel en moeder schreeuwde het uit. \u2018Geen dokter!\u2019 Ze had er vier weken niet op mogen staan. 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