Quick Review: De Verdronkene by Margriet de Moor

De Verdronkene
Author: Margriet de Moor
Language: Dutch
Short summary and opinion: January 31st, 1953. A date well known to every Dutch person. It was the night of the North Sea flood; a high spring tide and windstorm killed 1,835 people in the south-western province of Zeeland. This novel is about two sisters: one who got caught in the storm, the other safely up North in Amsterdam. It was supposed to be the other way around and the sister who's left behind feels like she's living her life on borrowed time.
While the sisters' struggles with life and death are intriguing, the author often gets lost in very technical descriptions of the storm, which is distracting. Her writing style annoyed me immensely.
Rating: 6/10
Curious? Some of her books are translated. Not this one though.