Will

It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero - but war has a way of catching up with people.When his idealistic best friend draws him into the growing resistance movement, and an SS commander tries to force him into collaborating, Wilfried's loyalties become horribly, fatally torn. As the beatings, destruction and round-ups intensify across the city, he is forced into an act that will have consequences he could never have imagined.A searing portrayal of a man trying to survive amid the treachery, compromises and moral darkness of occupation, Will asks what any of us would risk to fight evil.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jeroen Olyslaegers (b. 1967) writes columns, plays and prose. In 2014 he was awarded the Ark Prize for the Free Word for his work and his social engagement, and the Edmond Hustinx Prize for his theatre work. Will won four major prizes in the Netherlands and Flanders and is the first of his books to be translated into English. Olyslaegers lives and works in Antwerp.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Colmer, Jeroen Olyslaegers
• Mitarbeit: David Colmer (Übersetzung), Colmer David (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.2020
• EAN: 9781782274254
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-425-4
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 195 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, FICTION / General, Fiction in translation, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Niederländische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung