The Assault
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: March 1, 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Translation of: De aanslag
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780394744209
Copyright date: 1985
Description: It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.

The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton’s life. Determined to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence--a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with others who were involved in the assassination and its aftermath, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1944, and why.
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Notes: Date on back cover.