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About the Author

Harry Mulisch is one of Holland’s most important writers.  Born in 1927 in Haarlem to a Jewish mother whose family died in the concentration camps, and an Austrian father who was jailed after the war for collaborating with the Nazis, Mulisch felt a particularly charged connection with the Second World War, frequently the subject of his work.  He has received Holland’s highest awards for his novels, plays, poems, and essays.  The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.

Praise for The Assault…

“A beautiful and powerful work…takes its place among the finest European fiction of our time.”
—Elizabeth Hardwick
 
“A political thriller that removes the postwar scar tissue protecting society…a psychological thriller probing the moral devastation between neighbors, fellow students, husbands and wives…It is Mr. Mulisch’s triumph to have revealed all this…with an x-ray cunning.”
—The New York Times Book Review