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The Darkroom of Damocles

By (author) Willem Frederik Hermans, Translated by Ina Rilke





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A classic pitch-black wartime thriller from the author of An Untouched House

'I immerse myself in the book, intimidated at first by its length, astonished afterwards to find I have read it at a single sitting... The suspense never falters' Milan Kundera

Under Nazi occupation, Henri Osewoudt finds himself drawn into the resistance by his near-doppelgänger, the ruthless Dorbeck, Soon Osewoudt has entered a world that is a photo negative of his previous humdrum existence - carrying messages, helping British agents to escape and killing collaborators. But how much of it is real?

The Darkroom of Damocles is a razor-sharp classic thriller set in a world where everything is permitted, even murder. As unsettling and morally challenging today as when it was first written.

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Publisher | Pushkin Press
Published date | 1 Oct 2020
Language | English
Format | Digital (delivered electronically)
Pages | 416
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7822-7625-8
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BISAC | fiction / general


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