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title: "Discomfort of Evening"
brand: "marieke lucas rijneveld"
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# Discomfort of Evening

**Brand:** marieke lucas rijneveld
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## Customer Reviews

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    Boring Punctuated by Shock Scenes
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020*

“The Discomfort of Evening” by Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, has got to be the most scatological novel ever to win the International Booker Prize. If an entire novel about poo (yes, I get it’s symbolic, thanks) is what you’re in the mood for, then this is the book for you.And trust me, there are WAY WORSE scenes in the book than the poo obsession; disturbing and grotesque scenes of animal and human abuses. AND even then it’s mostly monotonous. I can only guess that it won the Booker for its shock value.

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    Masterfully Written, but Tough to Swallow
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020*

“The Discomfort of Evening” has a very dark premise: a young Dutch girl, angry at her older brother for excluding her, asks God to take him.  The boy never returns from his solo ice skating trip, and we see everyone in this farming clan trying to process it.  The subsequent days contain the uncertainty and confusion that you would expect from a 10-year-old narrator but with a much darker element to it. It would help if you had a strong stomach to get through our narrator’s experimentation and premature exposure to very adult activities.  She and her brother both had curious adventures with a teddy bear and a hamster.  No one would fault an individual who could not handle hearing such tales about prepubescent youth. Still, you have to admire how author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld gives her protagonist an eloquent voice despite a juvenile love of toilet humor. Breaking these social mores would cause most people to lose interest in the heroine, but we receive enough to know why Jas lacks the correct amount of guidance.  She knew her bible verses but not enough to kiss her sister correctly. (Wow, was that part uncomfortable to read).  You may develop a severe claustrophobia case when you see her parents’ loveless marriage and Jas’s lack of positive outlets from the toxic atmosphere. No one will ever call the theme of religiously oppressive households new. Still, Rijneveld grew up in a Reformist farming family and may have added some unique autobiographical bits to their writing.  We hope that some of the experimentation stories are from her imagination, but that will freak you out in a different way.  If you treat animals as property, could you, in turn, lack respect for your own body? Let me be clear: the author and translator both qualify as poetic wordsmiths and make sure that you care about Jas.  However, most people do not want to hear about borderline incest and ten-year-old curiosity in today’s climate.  You recognize the three kids as confused without guidance from their role models other than perverted Biblical messages.  In a way, it makes the occasional sweet moments more rewarding.

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    Explicit Descriptions of Abuse
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020*

I preordered this book in anticipation of a spectacular read by an emerging new literary voice.  While the author writes in a lyrical style, the content of their book is disturbing.  Specifically, they normalize and explicitly describe sexual abuse of children. My copy is on its way back to the warehouse.

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