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An uncommon 1st edition PBO of the award-winning and best-selling debut novel from award-winning Dutch author and poet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.

** On 27 August 2020, this book was confirmed as being the winner of the prestigious 2020 International Booker Prize, making the author (at the age of 29) the youngest ever winner of the prize **

'The Discomfort of Evening ', published on 5 March 2020 by Faber & Faber, London, 1st edition, only available in the UK as a modern paperback original, [vi] + 282 pages. Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchinson.

In fine unread condition, paperback original in french flaps. This is the true 1st/1st with no mention of the Booker Prize on the front flap.

I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.

A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison's translation.

'Intensely raw, shockingly graphic, and memorable ... There is a bold beauty to the book, which for all its modernity seems to be set in a different age of automatic religious belief: the immensity and mystery of the universe coexisting alongside the claustrophobic community of farm, church and school. By using Jas's everyday world as a metaphor for loneliness and fear, Rijneveld has created something exceptional. ' Financial Times

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