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The ditch : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him - with a respectable alderman. Robert starts spending a lot of time and energy "behaving normally." Naturally, his normal behavior is far more suspicious - ultimately losing himself in increasingly panicked and paranoid trains of thought.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525572381
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Hogarth, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| General Note: | Originally published in Dutch in the Netherlands as De Greppel by Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam, in 2016. |
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| Subject: | Married people > Fiction. Spouses > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. Mayors > Fiction. Obsession in men > Fiction. Paranoia > Fiction. Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Dutch fiction. |
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Summary:
Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him - with a respectable alderman. Robert starts spending a lot of time and energy "behaving normally." Naturally, his normal behavior is far more suspicious - ultimately losing himself in increasingly panicked and paranoid trains of thought.
