"Profoundly unsettling . . . haunt[s] the mind for long afterwards." The Sunday Times "The kind of book that stays with you forever." The Guardian "Hugely entertaining." The Scotsman
A Sunday Times Book of the Year: A brooding meditation on violence set during World War IIfrom a classic Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut
In this mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war, an interloper and opportunist makes a grand house of his own in the chaos of a war-torn countrysideonly to find himself involved with occupying forces and enraged locals.