Description
'Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist' John Updike With an introduction by Thomas Harding In the bitter final months of the Second World War, the body of a Dutch Nazi collaborator is found on the doorstep of an ordinary family home. The repercussions are complex and terrible: the family is killed and the house burned to the ground; only the twelve-year-old son, Anton, survives. Following Anton as he reckons with this trauma through his life, The Assault is a powerful excavation of resistance and the collateral damage wrought on innocent people in times of war.
The classic that sold over 200,000 copies in the Netherlands: a richly crafted novel of post-war innocence and guilt
About the Author
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927-2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages to date.
Reviews
Harry Mulisch belongs to the first rank of Dutch novelists of his generation -- J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner
As a parable of war, whose guilts and neuroses reach well into the present, this novel is so persuasive. It is Mulisch's triumph to have revealed all this with an X-ray cunning * The New York Times Book Review *
A genuinely great man of letters, the writer many acknowledge as Holland's finest novelist * Guardian *
Artful in its study of postponed knowledge and nightmare * Kirkus *
Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist -- John Updike
Book Information
ISBN 9781805221678
Author Harry Mulisch
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
The classic that sold over 200,000 copies in the Netherlands: a richly crafted novel of post-war innocence and guilt
About the Author
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927-2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages to date.
Reviews
Harry Mulisch belongs to the first rank of Dutch novelists of his generation -- J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner
As a parable of war, whose guilts and neuroses reach well into the present, this novel is so persuasive. It is Mulisch's triumph to have revealed all this with an X-ray cunning * The New York Times Book Review *
A genuinely great man of letters, the writer many acknowledge as Holland's finest novelist * Guardian *
Artful in its study of postponed knowledge and nightmare * Kirkus *
Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist -- John Updike
Book Information
ISBN 9781805221678
Author Harry Mulisch
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
