The Discomfort of Evening
A Novel

Winner of the International Booker Prize 2020 In this grim, claustrophobic novel, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld masterfully evokes an increasing sense of doom - on this Dutch farm, the apocalypse is nearing. Our narrator and main character is 10-year-old Jas who grows up in a strict religious family who ow......more

Winner of the International Booker Prize 2020 The last book I read which captured the confusion and darkness of a neglected childhood as perfectly as The Discomfort Of Evening is another Booker winner The God of Small Things. It is a hard task, even for the most accomplished of writers to make a chil......more

The rightful winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize Death announces itself in most cases, but we’re often the ones who don’t want to see or hear it. We knew that the ice was too weak in some places, and we knew the foot-and-mouth wouldn’t skip our village. De avond is ongemak was a bestselling......more

I loved this book for the very reason many will hate it: it taints our image of children. Children are little people, as complex in their need to make sense of outside stimuli as we are. There is our adult fantasy of innocence, and then – much more profoundly – there is true innocence, one that does......more

Winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize. I nod and think about the teacher who said I’d go far with my empathy and boundless imagination, but in time I’d have to find words for it because otherwise everything and everybody stays inside you. And one day, just like the black stockings which m......more