His first novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, a Bildungsroman set during the 1970s and 1980s, was written in English but first published in Dutch in the Netherlands in 1998.
A súa primeira novela, crónicas abisinias, un Bildungsroman que abrangue os anos 1970 e 1980, foi escrito en inglés, pero publicado en neerlandés en 1998.