The Darkroom of Damocles

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA Review "I plunged into this novel intimidated at first by its length, then astonished to find myself unable to put it down. For this is a thriller, a long chain of event during which the suspense never flags... exact and dry, rich in detail but fast-moving, frighteningly real yet verging on the incredible." -- Milan Kundera "Striking, suspenseful...Brilliant" -- The Obsever About the Author Willem Frederik Hermans was born in Amsterdam in 1921 and studied physical geography before becoming a lecturer at Groningen University. Disaffected with academia and his native country, he took up residence in Paris in 1973. He is the author of numerous novels, essays, plays and poems, and is considered one of the greatest post-war European writers. His novel Beyond Sleep, his first book to appear in English translation, was published recently by Harvill Secker. He died in 1995.