WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times Sunday Times and The Economist and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York TimesShortly before his death at the age of 90 Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain gave his grandson a set of notebooks.