num_pages: 224
description: The dissident writer Tomas Szass had fought in the Second World War as a committed communist. Now the staff of the state television company have the difficult task of making a documentary of this author's troubled life. A mixture of self- and political censorship ensures that this official version will become a work of propaganda.Clara, a young assistant, secretly pieces together the sequences which have been edited out. Her bold act brings new meaning to Sergei Eisenstein's claim that 'films are made on the cutting room floor'. And her defiance strikingly anticipates the mood that has brought about successful revolutions throughout Eastern Europe.Public Secret is an absorbing and original novel by one of Holland's foremost writers.
language: English
title: Public secret
titlecomplete: Public secret
genres: Literature, Roman, Dutch Literature
ratings_count: 358
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs
publisher: Faber and Faber