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A fresh start

Gerard Reve’s dreary protagonist does something wonderfully unexpected on New Year’s Eve — making this much lauded book, finally available in English, the perfect January read

issue 31 December 2016

  • The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale

    Gerard Reve. Translated by Sam Garrett

    Pushkin, pp. 317

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