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Praise: ‘A fully-fledged political novel, written in a style of nearly
unfathomable quality.’ – Vrij Nederland ‘Although Double Play is a first novel, it is the work of a
mature writer – one who prepared himself for this sort of audience through life experience.’ – World Literature Today |
‘A cleverly constructed novel, full of sharp
social observation and convincing characterisation, it tells us a good deal about Curaçao, about men, and about the darkness that lurks behind the seemingly innocent pastime of dominoes.’ – Carribean Beat
FRANK MARTINUS ARION (19362015) was born in Curaçao. He studied and taught Dutch literature in the Netherlands, where he was active in the Caribbean expatriate community and published poetry and fiction, and worked in Surinam from 1975 onwards. In 1980 he returned to Curaçao, where he was director of the Instituto Lingwistiko Antiano. He published the novel Double Play in 1973 (awarded with the Van der Hoogte Prize), Goodbye to the Queen, 1975), Noble Savages (1979), The Last Freedom (1995) and The Deserters (2006). 20
