The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus

The Sorrow of Belgium

Hugo Claus with Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator)

608 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction classics literary adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
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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 o...

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