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(0)Willem Frederik Hermans
1) Beyond Sleep
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this moving tragicomedy," an academic hoping to secure his reputation gains "self-knowledge . . . achieved at great cost" in this literary novel. (Publishers Weekly)
Alfred Issendorf is a Dutch geology student obsessed with the thought of dying without a major scientific discovery to his name. Setting off on a geological expedition which brings him to Norway, Issendorf is out to prove that craters in the landscape are actually holes caused...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck-a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance.
After the war, Osewoudt is taken...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Europa del Este, 1944. Un soldado holandés que lucha con un grupo de partisanos se refugia en una casa señorial durante un cese de hostilidades. La casa está casi intacta, ajena a los estragos de la batalla, y el partisano se instala en ella como si la guerra nunca hubiese tenido lugar: se baña, se viste con la ropa que encuentra en el armario, come algunos restos de comida. Cuando las fuerzas alemanas recuperan la plaza y unos soldados nazis...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this dark, unnerving work of wartime fiction, W. F. Hermans exposes humanity's essential savagery, barely concealed by its mores and morals. The year is 1944, and a Dutch partisan chances on an abandoned estate, where he decides to take refuge during a lull in the hostilities. The house seems untouched by the war, a kind of haven, its ornament and grandeur intact (not to mention its walls), clothes and sheets to spare, a kitchen stocked with food...