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Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas2020
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One of the Guardian's Top Ten Best New Books in TranslationThe sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a Dutch farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison.I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all. A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands by a prize-winning young poet, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's debut novel lays everything bare. It is a world of language unlike any other, which Michele Hutchison's striking translation captures in all its wild, violent beauty. Studded with unforgettable images - visceral, raw, surreal -The Discomfort of Evening is a radical reading experience that will leave you changed forever.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2020
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780571349388
Language:
English
BRN:
2748283