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Name of the book:
The Discomfort of Evening
Author:
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Year of Publication:
2020
Number of Pages:
272
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 the Evening is a radical reading experience that will leave you changed forever.
Tags:
European, Family, Booker Prize Winner, Novel, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Status:
Available
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