Der Anhalter

Gerwin van der Werf's novel "The Hitchhiker" takes readers on an exciting journey into the archaic nature of Iceland and into the heart of a family that threatens to break apart because of its secrets. For Tiddo, Isa and their son Jonathan, it is to be the trip of a lifetime, through Iceland in a camper van. They have always been drawn to the mystical island. Now it's finally going to be something, it has to be something - Tiddo hopes the trip will do nothing less than save his marriage. But then the three of them pick up a strange hitchhiker on their road trip, who keeps finding new reasons to travel along. The stranger breaks through Jonathan's reticence, fascinates Isa, and challenges Tiddo. When the family's fragile equilibrium threatens to tip, Tiddo sees the only way out in a breakneck journey to the crater lake Öskjuvatn. How far will a person go who is in danger of losing everything? "The black land is shaved bare by wind and a thousand winters. No living thing has any business there, even the dead stones lie there against their will." "What a storyteller, that van der Werf!" Trouw.