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Title Statement | An untouched house / Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. |
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Author | Hermans, Willem Frederik, 1921-1995 |
Additional Contributors | Colmer, David,1960- |
Publication | Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books,2018.©2017 |
Edition | First Archipelago Books edition. |
Extent of Item | 104 pages ; |
ISBN | 193981006X (pbk.) 9781939810069 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3390322 |
General Notes | Translation of: Het behouden huis. |
Summary | "The year is 1944, and a Dutch partisan chances on an abandoned estate, where he decides to take refuge during a lull in the hostilities. The house seems untouched by the war, a kind of haven, its ornament and grandeur intact (not to mention its walls), clothes and sheets to spare, a kitchen stocked with food and drink. He settles in, and begins to consider himself the owner. When the Nazis recapture the village and come knocking, they similarly assume the house to be his; they assume, also, its spare rooms, which they outfit as barracks. It is all and well until the true owner and his wife return to their estate. Horrified at the thought of being caught in his subterfuge, our protagonist finds himself drawn into further deceit--and swept up in the violence that ensues."--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Guerrillas--Fiction |
Dwellings--Fiction--Netherlands | |
Impostors and imposture--Fiction | |
Murder--Fiction | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Netherlands | |
Abandoned buildings--Fiction | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Psychological fiction |