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From the author of the hit The Evenings - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best work
There will be a club. Important messages have been sent already. If anybody wants to ruin it, he will be punished.
Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins.
In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watches as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents' friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. Then, slowly, terribly, their fate is sealed.
In these two haunting novellas from the acclaimed author of The Evenings, the world of childhood, in all its magic and strangeness, darkness and cruelty, is evoked with piercing wit and dreamlike intensity. Here, the things seen through a child's eyes are far from innocent.
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'Profoundly unsettling and haunt[s] the mind for long afterwards' -- Sunday Times, Books of the Year
'These two posthumously published novellas by the Dutch writer Gerard Reve, skilfully translated by Sam Garrett, show he was capable of enormous and often unsettling power' -- Observer
'Enthralling... tales of the joys and pains of life that linger in the mind' -- Financial Times
'Reve [has the ability]... to wring menace out of things left unsaid' -- Daily Mail
'In a distinctive voice that captures childish incomprehension while still conveying what is missed by the still immature mind, the two works collected in Childhood are dark and even unpleasant, but both strong and impressive' --Asymptote Journal
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Gerard Reve (1923-2006) is considered one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors, and was also the first openly gay writer in the country's history. A complicated and controversial character, Reve is also hugely popular and critically acclaimed. The first English translation of his masterpiece The Evenings was a critical and commercial hit in 2016.
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- EditorePushkin Pr Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2019
- ISBN 10 1782274596
- ISBN 13 9781782274599
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine155
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