May 1, 2020 · Mulisch, Harry. The Assault. Dutch author Harry Mulisch's The Assault (Dutch: De Aanslag) covers 35 years of the life of Anton Steenwijk, a ...

Nov 2, 2010 · Harry Mulisch, the Dutch writer who died on Saturday aged 83, escaped the concentration camps with his Jewish mother because his father ...

A hated Dutch police officer working for the Germans is murdered in front of Anton's house. His Jewish family, mother, father and brother, were killed by the ...

Nov 23, 2010 · The novel is suffused with a sense of prisons: "hermetically sealed somewhere deep inside him ... boundaries have to be continually sealed off, ...

Nov 18, 2010 · […] Mookse and the Gripes reviews a book from the 1980′s that I have never heard of – The Assault by Harry Mulisch and it looks quite ...

In a newspaper poll of 2007, Dutch readers voted it 'the best Dutch-language book ever'. Siegfried (2001), a dazzling literary investigation into the rise of ...

Mar 17, 2010 · The AssaultHarry MulischIn 1945, in the final throes of the Nazi occupation of Haarlem, Anton Steenwijk's parents and older brother are ...

Apr 25, 2017 · It all happened with the shot of a Nazi collaborator who was cycling on his street and whose corpse was then moved by the neighbours in front of ...

Apr 9, 2009 · Harry Mulisch: Understanding War ... The Assault by Harry Mulisch is a beautifully written book, starting with its lyrical prologue in which we ...

Oct 16, 2015 · Mulisch also pulls no punches in relation to the dead body that inspires the assault. When Fake Ploeg is shot a neighbour moves the corpse so ...