Is The Discomfort of Evening Worth Reading?
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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's debut novel — winner of the International Booker Prize — plunges deep into the traumatised inner world of a ten-year-old girl on a Dutch Reformed farming family after her brother's accidental death. Narrated with visceral, feverish intensity, the prose refuses to flinch from the strange logic of childhood grief and religious guilt. Rijneveld renders the body, faith, and family dysfunction as interlocking prisons in a style both shocking and achingly precise. It announced one of Europe's most singular literary voices.
“Unbearably tense and utterly original — Rijneveld writes grief the way no one else dares. You won't forget it.”
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AI reading intelligence“Unbearably tense and utterly original — Rijneveld writes grief the way no one else dares. You won't forget it.”
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4.5
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- Is The Discomfort of Evening worth reading?
- Unbearably tense and utterly original — Rijneveld writes grief the way no one else dares. You won't forget it. Ada rates it 4.5 out of 5.
