β Scribed by Joost Zwagerman
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
' The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS
'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs,Minor Literatures
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'We were kids _-_but good kids. If I may say so myself. We _'_re much smarter now, so smart it _'_s pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy '
A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present...
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