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Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus (1990, Hardcover)

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Tells the story of the emotional, sexual, and political coming of age of Louis Seynaeve, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394562631

ISBN-139780394562636

eBay Product ID (ePID)39905

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Original LanguageDutch

Book TitleSorrow of Belgium

Publication Year1990

TopicHistorical

LanguageEnglish

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorHugo Claus

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight35.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-016177

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal839.3/1364

SynopsisA classic novel in the tradition of The Tin Drum, The Sorrow of Belgium is a searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age -- emotionally, sexually, and politically. In 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupled with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows up fast. Bewildered by his family -- a stuffy father who actually welcomes the occupation and a flirtatious mother who works for (and plays with) the Germans -- he is seemingly at the center of so much he can't understand. Gradually, as he confronts the horrors of the war and its aftermath, the eccentric and often petty behavior of his colorful relatives and neighbors, and his own inner turmoil, he achieves a degree of maturity -- at the cost of deep disillusion. Epic in scope, by turns hilarious and elegiac, The Sorrow of Belgium is the masterwork by one of the world's greatest contemporary authors. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberPT6410.C553V3613

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by broadwaylarry
14 Mar, 2018
Dull and boring
This had to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. I struggled through all 600 pages. There was no continual flow. The plot jumped around and you didn't know who was who or what was happening from time to time. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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