
The Assault
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'Fuelled with energy, drama and emotional weight, combined with a light touch and a fast-moving story. Grab it while you can' Times
'Acknowledged as Holland's finest novelist' Guardian
'Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist' John Updike
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.
A runaway bestseller that sold 200,000 copies on first publication, this is a classic of Dutch literature from one of the greatest European writers of his time.
With an introduction by Thomas Harding, author of Hanns and Rudolf
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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 Fuelled with energy, drama and emotional weight, combined with a light touch and a fast-moving story. Grab it while you can * Times * A brilliant, bracing novel unlikely to lose relevance any time soon * Daily Mail * Twists and turns in interesting ways * Jewish Chronicle *More details
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