Dutch to share their dark masterpiece, 70 years on

"The Evenings" is lauded in the Netherlands as a modern classic, while its author, Gerard Reve, is a literary titan. Nearly 70 years after the novel’s publication and 10 years after Reve’s death, it has finally been translated into English. Set in Holland just after the second world war, it is a powerful story of an alienated young office worker who is cynical about his loving, middle-class parents and friends. The novel went on to find such appreciation that it has never been out of print and was ranked by the Society of Dutch Literature as the country’s best novel of all time.
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