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9761644450347
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9781644450345

The Discomfort Of Evening

$16.00
Author
Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas

stark and gripping tale of childhood grief from one of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literature
Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her motherā€™s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of ā€œblush wordsā€ that arenā€™t in the Bible.

One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her familyā€™s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parentsā€™ suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of ā€œthe other sideā€ and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her.

A bestseller in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveldā€™s radical debut novel The Discomfort of Evening offers readers a rare vision of rural and religious life in the Netherlands. In it, they ask: In the absence of comfort and care, what can the mind of a child invent to protect itself? And what happens when that is not enough? With stunning psychological acuity and images of haunting, violent beauty, Rijneveld has created a captivating world of language unlike any other.

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