{"id":1415,"date":"2025-06-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:46:27","slug":"read-around-the-world-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/read-around-the-world-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Around the World: Belgium!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Belgium may be a small country, but their bookish landscape is rich, diverse and beautiful. Belgium is a bilingual country, with its official languages of Dutch and French. We have already covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/10-books-from-the-netherlands-you-should-read\/\">Netherlands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/read-around-the-world-france\/\">France<\/a> in this series, so here are 4 books from Dutch-speaking Flemish authors and 4 from French-speaking authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 books from Belgium in Dutch <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Melting<\/em> &#8211; Lize Spit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/415iCAv202L._SY445_SX342_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/415iCAv202L._SY445_SX342_.jpg 294w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/415iCAv202L._SY445_SX342_-264x400.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Melting <\/em>by Lize Spit is a haunting psychological novel that delves into the complexities of childhood trauma, betrayal, and the enduring scars they leave. The story centres on Eva, a woman in her late twenties, who returns to her rural hometown in Flanders after a 13-year absence. In the trunk of her car lies a large block of ice, a silent testament to her unresolved past. The narrative oscillates between the present and the summer of 2002, gradually unveiling the events that led to Eva&#8217;s departure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I read this book year ago and still can\u2019t stop thinking about it. If you like reading books like <em>A Little Life, The Melting<\/em> is a perfect book set in Belgium for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Angel Maker<\/em> &#8211; Stefan Brijs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41Z4cTpNHQL._SY445_SX342_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41Z4cTpNHQL._SY445_SX342_.jpg 291w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41Z4cTpNHQL._SY445_SX342_-262x400.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for a dark fairytale? This novel by Stefan Brijs is the one to put on your list. After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return generates a lot of interest &#8211; and suspicion. He is accompanied by triplets, all of whom share the same physical deformity as the doctor &#8211; a hare lip. These children are very quiet and are rarely seen in the village. But with time, and a series of apparently miraculous cures and tales of the wife he lost, the doctor begins to win the villagers over. He hires an ex schoolmistress, Charlotte, to look after the children. But the longer she works with the doctor, the more she begins to suspect that the children &#8211; and the doctor &#8211; aren&#8217;t what they seem\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The War Within These Walls<\/em> &#8211; Aline Sax<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/51XAGn9QITL._SY445_SX342_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1426\" style=\"width:249px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/51XAGn9QITL._SY445_SX342_-1.jpg 246w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/51XAGn9QITL._SY445_SX342_-1-221x400.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving on to young adult. Illustrated with sober blue-and-white drawings, this powerful, acclaimed novel vividly captures the reality of World War II. After his family is forced to move into a crowded Polish ghetto, Misha joins other Jews who make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis. Conditions are appalling: every day more people die from disease, starvation, and deportations. Misha does his best to help his family survive, even crawling through the sewers to smuggle food. When conditions worsen, Misha joins a handful of other Jews who decide to make a final, desperate stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Mona in Three Acts <\/em>&#8211; Griet Op de Beeck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"349\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81OrQB2rKcL._SY522_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81OrQB2rKcL._SY522_.jpg 349w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81OrQB2rKcL._SY522_-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this international bestseller, a woman comes of age in a poignant novel about forgiveness, pain, and self-discovery. If you are looking for an emotional novel about a woman\u2019s journey of self discovery and forgiveness and speaking her truth then read this book. (Tip: Check the trigger warnings before reading this one)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mona\u2019s demanding mother ruled their home until a car crash took her life and changed their family forever. Left to tend to a distant father and a needy younger brother, Mona finds her new role almost too much to bear. And when a new stepmother, troubled and depressed, adds yet another crack to the family portrait, Mona\u2019s forced to shoulder an even greater share of the emotional burden. Somewhere between her responsibility to her family and to her own life, Mona finds a route of escape: in a theater career she craves. But for every challenge ahead\u2014romantic, professional, sexual, and familial\u2014Mona wonders how much of her future has already been defined by the challenges of her past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 books from Belgium in French<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Book of Proper Names<\/em> &#8211; Am\u00e9lie Nothomb<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81DOJ61QemL._SY522_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81DOJ61QemL._SY522_.jpg 340w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81DOJ61QemL._SY522_-261x400.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To have an extraordinary life, Lucette believes, one must have an extraordinary name. Horrified by the pedestrian names her husband chooses for their unborn child (Tanguy if it&#8217;s a boy, Joelle if it&#8217;s a girl), Lucette does the only honorable thing to save her baby from such an unexceptional destiny: she kills her spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While in prison, Lucette gives birth to a daughter to whom she bequeaths the portentous name of an obscure saint, Plectrude, before hanging herself. From her beginnings, Plectrude seems fated for a life like no other. Raised by an indulgent and adoring aunt, she is a dreamy child who is discovered to have enormous gifts as a dancer. Accepted at Paris&#8217;s most prestigious ballet school, Plectrude devotes herself to artistic perfection, giving dance her heart and soul &#8211; and ultimately her body. As her world shatters as easily as her bones, she learns to survive in the only way she knows how &#8211; by committing an act of deadly self-preservation her mother would have understood best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>I Who Have Never Known Men<\/em> &#8211; Jacqueline Harpman<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41S1QZl9yCL._SY445_SX342_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41S1QZl9yCL._SY445_SX342_.jpg 290w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41S1QZl9yCL._SY445_SX342_-261x400.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The most popular book on the list is definitely this one by Jacqueline Harpman. But did you know that this TikTok favorite was written by a French speaking author from Belgium? A good read if you like unhinged literature with a dash of weird girl fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl\u2014the fortieth prisoner\u2014sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others&#8217; escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Exposed <\/em>&#8211; Jean-Philippe Blondel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/411tdJMr4QL._SY445_SX342_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/411tdJMr4QL._SY445_SX342_.jpg 292w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/411tdJMr4QL._SY445_SX342_-262x400.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For fans of <em>Call Me By Your Name<\/em>, <em>Exposed <\/em>is a great read. A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel <em>The 6:41 to Paris<\/em> , evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Thieves<\/em> &#8211; Lucie Bryon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41AuHSck2sL._SY445_SX342_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41AuHSck2sL._SY445_SX342_.jpg 340w, https:\/\/bookinfluencers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/41AuHSck2sL._SY445_SX342_-306x400.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Last but not least, a graphic novel. This is <em>Thieves<\/em> by Lucie Bryon. Ella can\u2019t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger\u2019s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn\u2019t know why she\u2019s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie\u2019s nest of objects that aren\u2019t her own. And she can\u2019t stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can\u2019t tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania\u2026 But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece together that night between them and fix the mess of their chaotic personal lives in time to form a normal, teenage relationship? That would be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium may be a small country, but their bookish landscape is rich, diverse and beautiful. 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