The Comfort Bird and Cruel Paradise Other We were not allowed to

We were not allowed to be out on the street between eight o’clock at night and six o’clock in the morning

the doctor suggested that we should move him

That was illegal

I had to go back to my place in line

The Comfort Bird and Cruel Paradise Other We were not allowed toThe Comfort Bird follows the experiences of three generations of two families of farm laborers from a small town in the Northern Netherlands. In a strange twist of fate after D Day World War II brings the families together again, on opposing sides of the conflict. Cruel Paradise deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. Hylke Speerstra is one of the most acclaimed