![]() ![]() This much I will tell – it doesn’t destroy, though there is a feeling that it does diminish him. The focus is more on the aftermath and the affects on the boy. No spoiler that – you can find as much on the back cover. What follows is a callous Nazi reprisal in which Anton loses his parents and his 17-year old brother. It is dragged by his neighbours to the front of his house. Unfortunately for the protagonist, Anton Steenwijk, aged 12, the body isn’t left in the gutter. ![]() The body left lying in the gutter to rot shows the contempt felt in Holland for Nazi collaborators. That sentiment is prevalent both before and throughout the critical action of The Assault. Harry Mulisch, I’ve now discovered.įirstly that picture of a real assassination on the cover. Dutch policeman Fake Krist was shot by the Dutch resistance on October 25,1944. Name the great trio of post-war Dutch authors. ![]()
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