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The Evenings

By: Gerard Reve
Narrated by: Daniel Collard
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Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

©1946 Erven Gerard Reve (P)2018 Pushkin Press Genre Fiction Psychological Fiction Heartfelt Funny

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The book does not have a strong story and that is not a problem if the reader renders the text interesting with his voice accents and adapts it to the various characters and sets it to appropriate situations. This is all missing and we get a book that is read as by a friend who is not an actor/ professional story reader. I still appreciated Daniel’s pronunciation of the names of places and characters that was as close to Dutch as much as possible. It should be the funniest novel about boredom ever written and I am sure it could have been had the reader read it in a funny way. Overall 3 stars from me this time.

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