The Evenings

A modern masterpiece, voted the greatest Dutch novel of all time_______________'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.'Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

About the author

SAM GARRETT has translated some 50 novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors' Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Reve, Reve Gerard
• Assisted by: Sam Garrett (Translation), Garrett Sam (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781805330264
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-026-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Pushkin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary