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Ik kom hier nog op terug

Rob van Essen

A journalist gets a chance to undo the past through time travel, but the remedy opens a stranger, deeper reckoning.

First published 2023

Review Score: 80%

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The Story

Journalist Rob Hollander is drawn into a chance to revisit and repair a past mistake after an old student acquaintance offers him a way back. What begins as a targeted attempt to change one event quickly connects to a much larger tangle of memory, regret, and half-buried experience.

As the journey unfolds, the story moves between present-day investigation and earlier phases of Hollander’s life, including his student years and a formative childhood event. Old classmates, shared history, and the mechanics of time travel push the narrative into increasingly unstable territory, where what is remembered, what is true, and what is imagined become hard to separate.

The book builds toward a final stretch that recontextualizes earlier events and forces both the protagonist and the reader to reassess what the trip was really for. The result is a narrative centered less on neat correction than on the stubborn persistence of the past and the difficulty of escaping it.

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