Author: Agota Kristof Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Culture: France
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ISBNs: 9780957326699 9780517110249 0957326696 0517110245 |
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"With icy dispassion, first novelist Kristof, herself a refugee of war, spins a modern-day fable set in Eastern Europe during WW II. It records, in the form of a notebook written by two small boys, the nightmarish ordeal of twins brought by their mother from the bomb-spattered Big Town to their grandmother's home in Little Town. Grandmother, whom they call the Witch, harbors the boys only because they may prove useful. But they are wilier than she, spying on her through holes in the floor of the attic she can no longer reach, deliberately wounding each other to inure themselves to pain, learning the language of the occupying forces." (amazon)
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