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The darkroom of Damocles
- Title
- The darkroom of Damocles / Willem Frederik Hermans ; translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke.
- Author
- Hermans, Willem Frederik, 1921-1995.
- Publication
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT5844.H526 D665 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Rilke, Ina.
- Description
- 391 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck. Dorbeck gives Osewoudt a series of dangerous assignments helping British agents and eliminating traitors. But the assassinations get out of hand, and when Osewoudt discovers that his wife denounced him to the Germans, he kills her too." "At the end of the war Osewoudt himself is taken for a traitor and captured. He cannot prove that he received his assignments from Dorbeck. Worse, he cannot prove that Dorbeck ever existed. It is the very impossibility of ascertaining the "right" side and the "wrong" side - the moral issue of the Second World War in a nutshell - that makes Hermans's novel as breathtaking now as when it was written."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Donkere kamer van Damocles. English
- Alternative Title
- Donkere kamer van Damocles.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : Harvill Secker, 2007
- ISBN
- 9781590200629 (hc) :
- 1590200624 (hc) :
- LCCN
- 40015511341
- OCLC
- ocn181601804
- 181601804
- SCSB-8957713
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries