The Darkroom of Damocles

'A great writer' JONATHAN FRANZEN

Willem Frederik Hermans, Ina Rilke

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781782276241
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782276258
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Praise
• Title Page
• Contents
• ‘… He drifted …
• He went outside …
• Exactly how…
• His Aunt Fie …
• ‘It’s definite now …
• ‘Henri! …
• The Germans …
• Evert Turlings …
• Tuesday, 23 July …
• For a whole week…
• At the end…
• In his left hand…
• His watch…
• There were still…
• At a white…
• Moorlag…
• Zoeterwoudsesingel…
• Not until…
• At five past ten…
• The train…
• Osewoudt sat…
• When Obersturmführer…
• It was a car…
• They put him…
• Osewoudt was…
• The spyhole opened…
• Nothing much…
• He thought…
• Ebernuss came…
• The breeze…
• It was a…
• A bare room…
• Osewoudt asked…
• A week later…
• The torpedo-catcher’s…
• The next morning…
• Each morning…
• Not until…
• It was mid-November…
• From the…
• To: Miss Mirjam Zettenbaum…
• The new matron…
• A young…
• On Christmas Day…
• The building rocked…
• Postscript (1971)
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• About the Authors
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