by Harry Mulisch · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499121302
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«Das Attentat» is the historical novel by Dutch writer Harry Mulisch, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (189 pages, in German).
Anton Steenwijk is twelve years old when, in the winter of 1945, a Nazi collaborator is shot in his street in Haarlem; the German reprisal destroys his family and only he survives. The novel follows Anton, in five episodes, as he reconstructs the truth of that night and the motives of those involved.
Novel translated from Dutch by Annelen Habers, originally published in 1982 as «De aanslag»; this German edition is from 1996.
For readers seeking a European classic about the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and its aftermath in memory.
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch 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.
