Publication
Amsterdam CPNB 2012
ISBN
9789059651586
Language
Collections
Description
Heldere hemel is een fictief verhaal gebaseerd op een waargebeurd voorval uit 1989. In de nadagen van de Koude Oorlog stortte een onbemande Sovjet-Russische MiG-23 neer in Kooigem, een dorp in de buurt van Kortrijk. Een kleine gebeurtenis op het wereldtoneel, maar een noodlottig drama voor een familie.
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LibraryThing member Differenti
An interesting idea, but too short, too many loose ends, and too little character depth.
LibraryThing member thorold
In July, 1989, a defective Soviet fighter aircraft whose pilot had ejected over Poland continued to fly westwards on autopilot — causing a major NATO panic — and eventually crashed in West Flanders, where it destroyed a house, killing a person who was there at the time. Lanoye takes this real
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incident and fictionalises the characters involved in it — the pilot, the NATO chief of staff, a journalist, and the family whose house the plane is headed for. It's not very obvious why, except perhaps as a contrast between the structured nature of literary plots and the purely random way that kind of accident operates. The result is quite readable, but not very satisfying, somehow: the plane may be firmly buried in Flemish clay by the end of the book, but all but one of the characters are left very much up in the air. Show Less
Original publication date
2012