The Discovery of Heaven

a novel

Hardcover, 730 pages

English language

Published July 11, 1996 by Viking.

ISBN:
9780670856688
OCLC Number:
815626006

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ONE OF THE MAJOR POST-WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN WORKS OF LITERATURE AND AN INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER FROM THE AOUTHOR OF THE WIDELY PRAISED THE ASSAULT AND LAST CALL

The Assault was a "triumph," wrote The New York Times Book Review; a powerful portrait of "moral devastation revealed with X-ray cunning." Last Call was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "impressive, subtly constructed and elegantly written...rich in scenes of great beauty and emotional power." Now Harry Mulisch has given us his magnum opus. In this rich mosaic of twentieth-century trauma, characters embody variations on friendship, loyalty, family art, history, technology, religion, fate, good and evil to compose that rare literary phenomenon - a novel of ideas that also tells an excellent story.

It is a tale in which two friends stand in contrast. On a cold night in Holland, Max Delius - a hedonist, yeat a rhetorically brillian astronomer who loves …

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Subjects

  • Astronomers -- Fiction.
  • Philologists -- Fiction.
  • Male friendship -- Fiction.
  • Netherlands -- Fiction.