The Evenings
by
Gerard Reve
Book Details
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1805330268
ISBN-13
9781805330264
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Imprint
Pushkin Press Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 3rd, 2023
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
280 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 19.80 x 2.70 cms
KSh 1,800.00
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A modern masterpiece of one of the most important Dutch authors of all time, voted the best Dutch novel of the twentieth century
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE
''I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.''
Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.
This is the story of ten evenings in Frits''s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.
Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.
''I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.''
Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.
This is the story of ten evenings in Frits''s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.
Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.
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