The Assault by Harry Mulisch (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 13 MAR 2025

'Mulisch is a rarity … an instinctively psychological novelist' John Updike

With an introduction by Thomas Harding

In the bitter final months of the Second World War, the body of a Dutch Nazi collaborator is found on the doorstep of an ordinary family home. The repercussions are complex and terrible: the family is killed and the house burned to the ground; only the twelve-year-old son, Anton, survives.

Following Anton as he reckons with this trauma through his life, The Assault is a powerful excavation of resistance and the collateral damage wrought on innocent people in times of war.

Paperback
Publication: 13 Mar 2025, Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 9781805221678
Extent: 192 pages