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Original Title:	De aanslag
ISBN:	0394744209 (ISBN13: 9780394744209)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/118456/the-assault-by-harry-mulisch/9780394744209

The Assault Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

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Title	:	The Assault
Author	:	Harry Mulisch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First American Paperback Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	March 1986 by Pantheon (first published December 1st 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Dutch Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature

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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. Based on actual events, The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this horrific incident 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 1945—and why. --penguinrandomhouse.com

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A gripping WWII novel, set in a war-torn Dutch town. After a A Nazi collaborator, is gunned down, while riding home on his bicycle, setting off repercussions, that resonate, with all the people involved, guilty and innocent, through the rest of their haunted lives. An excellent look at the ravages of war.

I loved the way Harry Mulisch set the first scene in the novel. Almost nothing seemed to herald what would happen next. Family gathered at the table, father reading treatise of Jewish philosopher Spinoza, mother unraveling an old sweater while older son is doing his homework. And there is a younger son yet, Anton. Picture like from these old Flemish masters. Calm and peaceful. Except for the six gun shots that suddenly break the silence of the night. And from that moment nothing would ever be

Re-read for the first time since 1997, when I'd first discovered this Dutch novel. I've just been reading Caroline Moorhead's books about the Nazi occupation of France and the French Resistance and felt suddenly drawn to augment that reading with another resistance story. (For this, too, is a story of resistance, albeit in occupied Holland, though one cannot know that by reading a brief description of the plot, and to explain further would reveal too much about the story, which contains a

Beautiful novel and a typically Mulisch, showing off his knowledge. The characters are not fully elaborated. The central theme is about the divide between the truth and being right.

I don't like to review books because I don't do it well. I don't do it well because I don't like to summarize plots or stories and I don't like to put myself in a position to criticize or castigate. And I hate the one- to five-star system.I read because books create feelings inside me that resonate with me. And they cover so many so-called genres. I love action books. I love books that take me out of myself. I love books that take me into myself.I've just finished Harry Mulisch's The Assault.

Fabulous book. Intelligent, well-crafted, gripping story, beautifully translated

Probably the cover alone would have done the trick, genius cover. But actually I've read Siegfried by the author before and found it very interesting. Much like that book , The Assault also takes place during WWII or, technically, the main event of the story does, and the it takes decades to get to the bottom of it. Mulisch's life had been profoundly affected by WWII, which has informs his writing to a great degree. This novel according to The New York Times has made his reputation at home and