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MAN VAN STAAL
13-year-old Victor doesn’t think much of the fact that he will be spending the holidays with his aunt and uncle. It’s bound to be a fairly boring holiday in the tiny coastal town where his aunt and uncle run a hotel. What’ll he do without his friends! But Victor soon realises that life in a hotel isn’t that dull after all. He quickly makes new friends – such as Conchita, the Mexican chambermaid, and Fania, a girl of the same age as Victor. And whenever things don’t seem to work out they way he wants them to, there’s always his imagination to help him. Victor fantasises that he is the ‘Man of Steel’, a man who never cries (he’d only rust away!) and is quite simply invincible. The Man of Steel experiences all manner of exciting adventures on strange planets involving horrible monsters, such as the one that kidnaps his fantasy girl, Fania. At other times he encounters such imaginary figures as the fantasy woman Conchita, who gives him kissing lessons. However, there are adventures aplenty in real life, too. Victor’s uncle owes money and is being threatened by a bunch of heavies. Wanting to help, Victor steals Conchita’s savings so that his uncle can carry out his plan to double them at the casino. The greatest adventure of all, however, still lies ahead of Victor, namely, to really find out how to kiss a girl . . .
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