The discomfort of evening
Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas2020
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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.
The discomfort of evening / Marieke Lucas Rijneveld ; translated by Michele Hutchison.
London : Faber, 2020.London : Faber, 2020.
282 pages ; 20 cm
Translated from the Dutch.
Booker International Prize 2020
9780571349371 (pbk)
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