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<p><p>THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

A FINANCIAL TIMES TRANSLATED FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR</p>
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<p>It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero - but war has a way of catching up with people.</p>
<p>When his idealistic best friend draws him into the growing resistance movement, and an SS commander tries to force him into collaborating, Wilfried's loyalties become horribly, fatally torn.</p>
<p>As the beatings, destruction and round-ups intensify across the city, he is forced into an act that will have consequences he could never have imagined.</p>
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<p>'A vivid, complex, and captivating novel about the grubby moral compromises of life under occupation' Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out Girl

'Masterful... A gripping epic, necessary and gorgeously written' Stefan Hertmans, author of War and Turpentine

'Historical fiction at its best: provocative, uncomfortable and illuminating' The Times</p></p>