Set in 1939, this is the story of Louis Seynaeve, a 10 year-old Flemish boy with a wild imagination. He is a student at a convent boarding school, but his chief interest is in his secret society, the Apostles. However his life changes when the Nazis invade Flanders, and he begins to grow up fast.

Sorrow Of The Belgium

Claus, Hugo

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

Set during the turbulent years of 1939 to 1947, this is the story of a nation's coming of age, seen through the eyes of an adolescent, Louis Seynaeve. Returning home from his Catholic boarding-school to Walle, he finds that his family is more than willing to collaborate with the Germans.

The Sorrow of Belgium (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Literary

Penguin Classics

United in their considerable desire for drink and cards, Jake, an overweight, slow-witted yet gentle man, and dark, brooding Michel have become fixtures at The Unicorn, a local Belgian watering hole. Suddenly aware that their wants have outgrown the narrow confines of their village, and of the Old World, these sympathetic rogues impulsively set out for the land of silk and money: Las Vegas, Nevada. While Jake and Michel pursue their exploits of satiation under the neon Day-Glo of 1970s America, their relatives and friends contend with sinister business of their own. Two forms of desire go afoul of each other, revealing the dark menace lurking behind the facade of glitter and glamour in the New World, and of friendship and innocence in the Old World. Melding humor with rich characterization and language, Hugo Claus conveys the precariousness of our beliefs and the grotesque and meaningful forms that human desire can assume in this frightening, ribald, and gripping novel.

Desire

Penguin??Books

The first English-language collection of poems by this major Flemish writer, Greetings contains work from more than six decades of Hugo Claus's career. Uncompromising and irreverent, Claus writes about postwar politics and society, about race and class, love and sex, art and literature. This volume is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the avant-garde of the last half-century-and to anyone interested in poetry that continues to be provocative, pertinent, and compelling. Year of atrocities, year of cathode-ray tube and stock market report, Year of milk and honey if you're asleep, Year that sticks in your stomach if you're awake, Sweet year, good year for sleepwalkers . . . Year that freezes the smile. It was in that year I went to live in a village with books, a wife and a child who grows while I talk about the tigers in the East. - F R O M " 1 9 6 5 "

Greetings: Selected Poems

Irons, John

Poetry

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Tells the story of the emotional, sexual, and political coming of age of Louis Seynaeve, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium

THE SORROW OF BELGIUM

Pantheon

Sorrow of Belgium

Genre Fiction

VIKING

Lovable rogues Jake and Michel leave their friends at "The Unicorn," their favorite local tavern in Belgium, to embark on a picaresque odyssey of booze and gambling to make their fortunes amid the glitter of Las Vegas casinos. By the author of The Sorrow of Belgium. 10,000 first printing.

Viking Adult

Four taboo-tackling plays from the foremost writer of Dutch language theatre, poetry and prose.

Four Works for the Theatre

Dramas & Plays

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.

While exposing the remains of Flemish fascism twenty years after the War, Wonder tracks one man's descent into madness. Victor, a bewildered teacher, pursues a mysterious woman to a castle in a remote village. There he finds himself trapped among a handful of desperate individuals still living out their collaboration with the Nazis. As Victor's sanity begins to crumble, he poses as an expert on their messianic leader, who disappeared at the Russian front but whose return they believe imminent. The rich cadences of the prose and dense emotional texture of characters lost in complex moral labyrinths make Wonder a symphony only Claus could have composed.

Wonder

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Archipelago

In 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupied with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows up fast. Bewildered by his family―a stuffy father who welcomes the occupation and a flirtatious mother who works for (and plays with) the Germans―he is seemingly at the center of so much he can't understand. Gradually, as he confronts the horrors of the war and its aftermath, the eccentric and often petty behavior of his colorful relatives and neighbors, and his own inner turmoil, he achieves a degree of maturity―at the cost of deep disillusion. Epic in scope, by turns hilarious and elegiac, The Sorrow of Belgium is the masterwork by one of the world's greatest contemporary authors.

The Sorrow of Belgium (Tusk Ivories)

United States

Harry N. Abrams

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Sorrow Of The Belgium

The Sorrow of Belgium (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Desire

Greetings: Selected Poems

THE SORROW OF BELGIUM

Sorrow of Belgium

Desire

Four Works for the Theatre

Wonder

The Sorrow of Belgium (Tusk Ivories)