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02659aam a22004098i 4500 001 988DE666DE6411E8A1A4695297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181102010026 008 181009s2018 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018037412 020 $a 193981006X 020 $a 9781939810069 035 $a (OCoLC)1057732085 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d UAB $d BYN $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h dut 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ne--- 050 00 $a PT5844.H526 $b B4813 2018 082 00 $a 839.313/64 $2 23 100 1 $a Hermans, Willem Frederik, $d 1921-1995, $e author. 240 10 $a Behouden huis. $l English 245 13 $a An untouched house / $c Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. 250 $a First Archipelago Books edition. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, NY : $b Archipelago Books, $c 2018. 300 $a 104 pages; $c 16 cm 520 $a "In this dark, unnerving work of wartime fiction, W. F. Hermans exposes humanity's essential savagery, barely concealed by its mores and morals. The year is 1944, and a Dutch partisan chances on an abandoned estate, where he decides to take refuge during a lull in the hostilities. The house seems untouched by the war, a kind of haven, its ornament and grandeur intact (not to mention its walls), clothes and sheets to spare, a kitchen stocked with food and drink. He settles in, and begins to consider himself the owner. When the Nazis recapture the village and come knocking, they similarly assume the house to be his; they assume, also, its spare rooms, which they outfit as barracks. It is all and well until the true owner and his wife return to their estate. Horrified at the thought of being caught in his subterfuge, our protagonist finds himself drawn into further deceit--and swept up in the violence that ensues. Civilization comes face-to-face with brutality, truth meets the duplicity that has upended and challenged its certainty--Hermans' prose searches for an order to the chaos and nihilism of war and life. What he cannot find is as telling as what he uncovers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Dutch. 650 0 $a Dwellings $z Netherlands $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Netherlands $v Fiction. 655 7 $a War fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Nooteboom, Cees, $d 1933- $e writer of supplementary textual content. 700 1 $a Colmer, David, $d 1960- $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191121012115.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181102010115.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=988DE666DE6411E8A1A4695297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search