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The Longest Night

Author: Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson  

The Longest Night
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Another restrained yet monumental epic-in-miniature by one of the most elegant and lucid of modern European writers

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Another restrained yet monumental epic-in-miniature by one of the most elegant and lucid of modern European writers

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A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily Mail

Since the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries Bruno, they have two sons, and she determines to block out the years she spent in Nazi Berlin during the war, with her first husband Carl.

But now, ninety-six years old and on the eve of her death, long- forgotten memories crowd again into her consciousness, flashbacks of happier years, and the tragedy of the war, of Carl, of her father, and of the friends she has lost.

In THE LONGEST NIGHT, his impressive, reflective new novel after News from Berlin, Otto de Kat deftly distills momentous events of 20th-century history into the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare, melancholy beauty.

Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson

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Critic Reviews

“One of the Netherlands' most compelling literary voices”

A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting. - Daily Mail

An exceedingly beautiful novel that you read breathless till the end. - E.O. Vision.

De Kat mixes great moral issues with historical events. This is his literary art. The Longest Night is melancholic and brilliantly written. - Radio Berlin.

Otto de Kat has created a small masterpiece. - Nurnberger Zeitung.

The De Kat Express takes you on a journey without borders. - NRC Handelsblad.

These are novels of subtle emotional distance . . . as physical as a blow to the heart - Irish Times

- Irish Examiner

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About the Author

Otto de Kat is the pen name of the founder of Dutch non-fiction publishing house Balans, Jan Guert Gaarlandt, also a poet, novelist and critic. His prize-winning novels have been widely published in Europe, and Man on the Move was the winner of the Netherlands' Halewijn Literature Prize.

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A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily Mail Since the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries Bruno, they have two sons, and she determines to block out the years she spent in Nazi Berlin during the war, with her first husband Carl. But now, ninety-six years old and on the eve of her death, long- forgotten memories crowd again into her consciousness, flashbacks of happier years, and the tragedy of the war, of Carl, of her father, and of the friends she has lost. In THE LONGEST NIGHT , his impressive, reflective new novel after News from Berlin , Otto de Kat deftly distills momentous events of 20th-century history into the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare, melancholy beauty. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson

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Product Details

Publisher
Quercus Publishing | MacLehose Press
Published
19th April 2018
Pages
240
ISBN
9780857056092

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