| Record Number |
835993 |
| ISBN |
9780571349364 (paperback) |
| 0571349366 (paperback) |
| Author |
Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas author. |
| Title |
The discomfort of evening / Marieke Lucas Rijneveld ; translated by Michele Hutchison. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Faber & Faber, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
282 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents note |
Translation of: De avond is ongemak. |
| First published in Dutch by Atlas Contact, Amsterdam, in 2018. |
| Summary Note |
Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Dutch. |
| Subject |
Families -- Netherlands -- Fiction |
| Brothers -- Death -- Fiction |
| Grief -- Fiction |
| Guilt -- Fiction |
| Netherlands -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Added Author |
Hutchison, Michele translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F RIJN |
