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THE ASCENT - STEFAN HERTMANS TASCHENBUCH

The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans  author of the modern classic War and Turpentine.
'Magnificent' Philippe Sands 'Powerful and humane' Observer 'An utterly masterly book' Jonathan
Coe In 1979  Stefan Hertmans fell in love with a dilapidated old house in Ghent  Belgium  which
he restored to become his peaceful sanctuary. Now  all these years later  he learns that a bust
of Hitler once sat on the mantelpiece  and a war criminal and his family relaxed in its rooms.
This shocking discovery sends Hertmans off to the archives  to uncover the secrets of the house
and to reimagine this man's life and expose the atrocities he's responsible for. We see Willem
Verhulst as a weak  narcissistic man who climbed high in the ranks of the SS  a fascinating
case study for the cruel and perverse mentality of the Nazis. The Ascent portrays the deep
tragedy of Flemish collaboration during the Second World War  as Hertmans masterfully brings
history and the house to life  imagining individual lives to tell the greater European story.
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay

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