A magnificently ambitious and enthralling novel that confirms
Moring's place as one of the most significant European novelists
now at work. At the end of the Second World War, Jacob Noah emerges
from the hole in the ground where he has been hiding for the past
three years, and cycles madly back to his home town to find that
his parents and brother have perished at the hands of the Nazis.
Setting himself up as a shoemaker in the Dutch town of Assen, Noah
patiently expands his business until he has become the most
influential entrepreneur in the city. But however wealthy he
becomes, nothing can console him for the loss of his family and the
tragedy of history. In June 1980, on the eve of Assen's annual TT
races, a despairing Noah sets off on a journey into the depths of
his soul. Guided by a shabby, supernatural pedlar calling himself
the 'Jew of Assen', he descends into the smoky heart of the town, a
man-made hell modelled on Dis, the city in Dante's Inferno. In a
rich and varied explosion of styles, fantasy and philosophical
speculations, Marcel Moering leads us on a voyage through the dark
heart of the twentieth century, and through a vivid exploration of
loss and guilt.
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