The Discomfort of Evening

Author(s): Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)

Fiction.

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020.   The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all. A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other.      


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Winner International Booker Prize 2020      

 

 
 

General Fields

  • : 9780571349364
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : October 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
  • : Paperback
  • : 2005
  • : English
  • : 839.3137
  • : 288