Childhood Av Gerard Reve

<b>From the author of the hit <i>The Evenings</i> - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve''s best work</b><br><br>There will be a club. Important messages have been sent already. If anybody wants to ruin it, he will be punished.<br><br>Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins.<br><br>In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watches as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents'' friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. Then, slowly, terribly, their fate is sealed.<br><br>In these two haunting novellas from the acclaimed author of <i>The Evenings,</i> the world of childhood, in all its magic and strangeness, darkness and cruelty, is evoked with piercing wit and dreamlike intensity. Here, the things seen through a child''s eyes are far from innocent.