Beautiful Grace Paget has no reason not to believe these words. After all, she was kidnapped, spirited away to a remote country manor, and told she is to grant this man his every desire...or lose her life. But Grace is no common trollop. So she risks everything to save her virtue by planning a darin
An Untouched House
โ Scribed by Willem Frederik Hermans; David Colmer; Cees Nooteboom
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 49 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
A mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand house his own in the chaos of a war-torn countryside, only to find himself involved with occupying forces and enraged locals.
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