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Childhood: Two Novellas

From the author of the hit `The Evenings` – two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve`s best workThere will be a club. Important messages have been sent already. If anybody wants to ruin it, he will be punished.Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins.In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watched as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents` friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. Then slowly, terribly. their fate is sealed.In these two haunting novellas from the acclaimed author of `The Evenings`, the world of childhood, in all its magic and strangeness, darkness and cruelty, is evoked with piercing wit and dreamlike intensity. Here, the things seen through a child`s eyes are far from innocent.

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