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The novel: THE HEARTLAND TRILOGY I. DE VLINDER EN DE STORM | BUTTERFLY ON THE STORM A.W. Bruna | Utrecht, 2013 | 464 pages Volume II will be published in spring 2014 Volume III will be published in autumn 2014 A hit-and-run on a woodland road near Amsterdam involving an Afghan boy is connected to a powerful international crime syndicate. Journalist Farah Hafez, together with her colleague Paul Chapelle, gets caught up in an investigation that takes them all the way to Moscow and has greater political and personal ramifications than they bargained for. After this perilous journey, their lives will never be the same again. Butterfly on the Storm, the first installment of The Heartland Trilogy, is not only a fast-paced thriller, but also an intriguing tale of lost loves and ideals. M PDF & finished copy of the Dutch edition book are available M English sample translation & synopsis are available
The characters: Farah Hafez: Paul Chapelle: Farah Hafez is a 38-year-old journalist with the national newspaper Algemeen Nederlands Dagblad (AND). At the age of nine she escaped her native Afghanistan after her father, Home Affairs Minister Aadel Gailani, lost his life during the communist uprising. Her father's death in 1978, followed less than a year later by that of her mother, put an abrupt and traumatic end to Farah's sheltered childhood. Farah would like to reconnect with her past, but out of fear of being hurt she avoids every opportunity to do so. The discovery of a seriously injured Afghan boy in the woods near Amsterdam serves as an unexpected turning point in Farah’s life. Not only does this lead to her first major piece of investigative journalism, it also forces her to face up to the reality of the childhood she thought she'd lost forever. In the summer of 1968, eighteen-year-old Dutch artist and hippie Isobel Vallent meets American journalist Raylan Chapelle during a student demonstration in a Kabul market square. The protest is broken up by police, but the encounter is the beginning of a passionate love affair. A year later Paul Chapelle is born. Paul is still a child when war correspondent Raylan Chapelle loses his life during one of his assignments. Following in his father's footsteps, Paul becomes a journalist himself, but he's plagued by the fear of never being able to live up to his late father's reputation. He drifts through life, working as a reporter and foreign correspondent in Paris, Athens and Istanbul and then Johannesburg in a futile attempt to feel at home somewhere. As he and Farah get to know each other better, Paul discovers that their childhood past in Kabul connects them in ways he could have never imagined.
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