The Assault by Harry Mulisch Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Assault
Book Review: Just Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
Last year in english class this was the last book we had to read. It was amazing. Mulisch draws the reader into the book with amazing skill, slowing bringing the reader into a spirrial of consindences and chance meetings. It follows the story of a biy called Anton, towards the end of the war a important official is killed outside his house. It takes the reader through the rest of his life and although Anton attepmted to forget, the past kept coming up until he discoved the truth about what happend.
This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. I would recomend it to anyone.
Book Review: Just like I remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
I was there. My mother(my father already being in Buchenwald,political prisoner,active in Dutch politics)and two older brothers always worried about the Nazi countermeasures against "terrorist" acts by the "underground". I missed witnessing the killing of the Chief of police in Den Bosch by a few minutes. He was like the Police official killed in The Assault, except he was killed in front of a bookstore.Book Review: Makes you think....
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is more than just a thrilling story about Nazi retaliation in German-occupied Holland. Rather, this is very much a story about human nature. It's an insightful commentary on what people are all about and an exploration of motives behind people's actions.Book Review: Masterful Dutch Literature...
Summary: 5 Stars
In Dutch highschools, this is one of those works which is read by everyone. Especially in the Netherlands this book has been analyzed to death, and I certainly won't add anything significant to the debate. The truth is that this is an incredible peace of art. Harry Mulisch is well known for his ability to write a great novel, but this is by far his best one. The story of the man who slowly discovers the truth about the events that killed his family is deeply touching, as well as telling. This book is not only about a man finding out a lost truth, it is about a country devastated through war, finding its way back on track. This story will tell you more about the spirit that lived within the Netherlands and the events that followed than some history books. I would greatly recommend this book to anyone who has a love for good literature as well as a wish to find out more about the Netherlands as a country during and after the war.Book Review: Probably the best novel I have ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book for the first time many years ago, and I have re-read it a couple of times since then. I purchased another copy of it recently as a gift for an old friend from college. After my first reading of it, my conclusion was that it was probably the best novel I had ever read. This judgment was confirmed by a friend (a college librarian), who independently told me that she had the same opinion. I have recommended the book to many people since then. The novel tells the story of a teenager from the traumatic event that he undergoes in the last year of World War II in the Netherlands (1944-45) through several later stages in his life, and how he comes to terms with this event both psychologically and with regard to figuring out the details of what happened. The book has a beautifully crafted plot and is written in wonderful sparse prose. In the Netherlands, this novel was extremely popular and has probably become on the the most widely read novels ever.