Jun 6, 2012 · All I knew of the book before opening it was that it concerned a man whose entire family was killed by the Nazis during the Second World War as ...

Apr 11, 2020 · The story and the characters' behavior is guided and determined, we're led to believe, by two angels who converse in the Prologue, at the ...

Dec 2, 2013 · There is a great difference between Harry Mulisch's international reputation as a politically committed public intellectual with a European ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apr 9, 2009 · The Assault by Harry Mulisch is a beautifully written book, starting with its lyrical prologue in which we are introduced to the quiet ...

Apr 25, 2017 · The Assault by Harry Mulisch. Second World War. Holland under the Nazi occupation. The drama of a nation, the tragedies of millions of people ...