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100 1 _aKalma, Douwe,
_d1896-1953
245 1 3 _aDe swiere winst
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-07
520 _a"De swiere winst" by Douwe Kalma is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Sjoerd Lolkes, a young Frisian who returns from military service to the slow, demanding rhythms of rural labor and finds himself torn between freedom, ambition, and duty. With the quiet guidance of his resilient grandmother Minke and the pull of his beloved Anne, he seeks a life that matches his inner hunger for greatness without losing his moral footing. Nature’s radiance and village sobriety frame an intimate, psychological coming‑of‑age. At the start, Sjoerd works on a terp in a brilliant early-summer light, feeling out of place among older, steady laborers and repelled by a coarse new coworker; he longs for the open vitality he knew during service yet senses it cannot sustain him. The narrative then turns to Minke, his grandmother: a poor, dignified widow marked by grief—husband lost to lightning, one son dead young, another ruined by drink—who took in Sjoerd as a child and raised him with clear-eyed love and restraint. That evening, Minke perceives his unrest and gently steers him toward what is good “here,” naming Anne; Sjoerd resolves to go to her, newly certain. But on his way a wave of guilt over past affairs in the garrison world surges up, and he fears he can no longer look at Anne with the unshadowed purity he craves—an inner conflict that sets the tone for the story’s unfolding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cSneek: A.J. Osinga, 1921
653 _aFrisian fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77417
999 _c118137
_d118137