Postcards from No Man's Land Themes

Besides learning about his grandfather's secret love child and coming to grips with Geertrui's assisted death in Postcards from No Man's Land, Jacob's other journey is figuring out who he is. But i...

Everyone has a different definition of love, and Postcard's from No Man's Land offers a nice sampling of different perspectives. Love here is seen as a truly powerful, unstoppable force of nature f...

You don't have to get beyond the cover to figure out Postcards from No Man's Land is about war. It's set during a battle in World War II, and then the anniversary of that battle, and follows the lo...

Are kids just the mini-me versions of the adults they will become, or is something substantial lost—or gained—in the transition to adulthood? And how does that process work, anyhow? Postcards f...

When Jacob wants to find himself, he jumps into The Diary of Anne Frank; when Daan needs a little TLC, he stares at Rembrandt; and when Geertrui and Jacob need a pick-me-up, they read poetry. Why?...

Nearly all the characters from Postcards from No Man's Land who are alive during World War II are brave. Geertrui is ready to die for Jacob and is always acting rashly to defend him; Jacob would ra...

Our mind is what keeps us aware (some of us more so after a cup of coffee in the morning)—it governs all of our choices and filters the massive amounts of information we encounter daily. And it n...

Truth can mean a lot of different things (at least that's what we told our mom when she asked where the plate of cookies went). There's "the truth," as in the opposite of a lie, and then there's "T...