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Bintje was published in November 2023 by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts

The cover of Bintje, Tuly Salumu's coming-of-age novel about diversity, intergenerational trauma and motherhood

The Standard of Letters

Heartbreaking. Salumu knows how to describe the story from the inside out, as novelists can. With many vivid details, she creates a lifelike portrait of three tormented lives. A dream debut.

The Newsblad

"Painfully honest, Salumu describes in simple yet precise prose what it's like to grow up as a girl and woman of color in an environment where skin color is still a defining factor. Bintje is a powerful debut about the 'everydayness of racism.'"

The Reactor

Salumu sharply illustrates (...) how social and emotional relationships are continua, on which positions are never definitively anchored. Life is an eternal attempt to better understand our own changing positions and those of others, a quest without a final destination.
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