Kees Beekmans worked for ten years as a teacher in Amsterdam. ‘Tales out of School’, which appeared in Granta 93, is a translation from his recent book Een Hand Kan Niet Klapt (One Hand Can’t Clap) which is published by Het Spectrum in the Netherlands.
‘But it seems I’ve said something stupid again, and blasphemous to boot.’
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