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The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

AUTHOR :  Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

TRANSLATOR:   Michele Hutchison (from Dutch)

GENRE : FICTION

QUICK TAKE:  Winner - 2020 International Booker Prize 

                        '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.'

SYNOPSIS:

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.

RECOMMENDATION

''One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good ... A classic.'
-Max Porter

'Exceptional' (Financial Times)
'Exhilarating' (Independent)
'Luminous' (Observer)
'Beautifully wild' (Guardian)

BINDING: Paperback


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