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=Turks Fruit (novel)=

Turks Fruit is a Dutch novel written by Jan Wolkers in 1969. It tells the love story of a sculptor and a ginger girl named Olga.

Plot summary
Turks Fruit begins with the sculptor lying on his bed and thinking about Olga, who has left him. He first met her when he was hitchhiking. She picked him up. After a while they had sex. When they started driving again, they were in a car accident, but not a lethal one. Two months later they met again. They decided that they wanted to live together and got married.

The sculptor thinks about the highlights in his marriage with Olga.

He describes some things that happened when Olga was younger and he hadn't met her yet.

The sculptor then describes the father and mother of Olga. Her fahter was a fat, funny man. He makes some jokes and repeates them time after time, like this one: 'Do you know the joke about the boys who went to... They never went.' The mother of Olga is the complete opposite of her fahter. The sculptor hates her, and she hates him. She wants to destroy the relationship between him and Olga. She is also the reason the father of Olga died. He was on a diet, but she secretly fed him fat. The sculptor saw her doing it and considers is murder. He never told Olga or her father. The mother of Olga also cheats and the fathers knows it, but he doesn't mind. Also, one of her breasts was amputated because she had breast cancer.

After the sculptor has described the parents of Olga, he tels us about his sexual relation with her, which was very important.

He thinks about the time they went on vacation to Ameland and the times he used her as a model.

During a dinner the sculptor witnisses Olga flirting with someone her parents know, and afterwards she goes to the bathroom with him, so he hits her. She then leaves him and returns to her mother.

After she leaves, the sculptor has a few short relationships with other women, but not one of them is as good as Olga. When he is tired of the short realtionships he lets two American girls rent a room in his house. He kicks them out when his petbirds poop in that room.

Olga has several relationships and marriges after the sculptor, but none of her husbands is as good as the sculptor. She changes her appearance and paints her hair blond. She spends a lot of time outside of the Netherlands. Once Olga becomes pregnant, but her ovaries are removed and the relation she is in is ended.

Olga discovers she has a brain tumor, which cannot be removed. She lets the sculptor know. He comes to her in the hospital nearly everyday for six months, until she dies. She slowly looses all of her hair and the sculptor buys her a wig. She is afraid that her teeth will fall out, so she only eats Turkish Delight. That's why the title is Turks Fruit, which is the Dutch word for Turkish Delight. Olga dies on an early spring evening. She is cremated with her wig on.

Trivia
Jan Wolkers based the charcter Olga on his second wife Annemarie Nauta, his third wife Karina Gnirrep and Ida Sipora, a photagrapher and poet, who died of cancer in 1964. This was discoverd by Abdelkader Benali for the televisionshow Benali Boekt.

Adaptations

 * In 1973 Turkisch Delight was turned into an awardwinning film. Paul Verhoeven directed it. Rutger Hauer stars as the sculptor, and Monique van de Ven as Olga.
 * In 2005 the musical apaption of Turkisch Delight called Turks Fruit the Rockmusical hit the theatres. It was written by Dick van den Heuvel, in collaboration with Jan Wolkers.