Childhood: Two Novellas - Couverture souple

Reve, Gerard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782274596 ISBN 13 : 9781782274599

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the author of the hit The Evenings -- two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best work

There will be a club. Important messages have been sent already. If anybody wants to ruin it, he will be punished.

Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins.

In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watched as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents' friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. Then slowly, terribly. their fate is sealed.

In these two haunting novellas from the acclaimed author of The Evenings, the world of childhood, in all its magic and strangeness, darkness and cruelty, is evoked with piercing wit and dreamlike intensity. Here, the things seen through a child's eyes are far from innocent.

Revue de presse :

'Profoundly unsettling and haunt[s] the mind for long afterwards' -- Sunday Times, Books of the Year

'These two posthumously published novellas by the Dutch writer Gerard Reve, skilfully translated by Sam Garrett, show he was capable of enormous and often unsettling power' -- Observer

'Enthralling... tales of the joys and pains of life that linger in the mind' -- Financial Times

'Reve [has the ability]... to wring menace out of things left unsaid' -- Daily Mail

'In a distinctive voice that captures childish incomprehension while still conveying what is missed by the still immature mind, the two works collected in Childhood are dark and even unpleasant, but both strong and impressive' --Asymptote Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1782274596
• ISBN 13: 9781782274599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160