{"product_id":"9781805330264-evenings","title":"The Evenings","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA modern masterpiece of one of the most important Dutch authors of all time, voted the best Dutch novel of the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern masterpiece, voted the greatest Dutch novel of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny and mesmerising, \u003ci\u003eThe Evenings\u003c\/i\u003e takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40922313031777,"sku":"9781805330264","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41160677_f7196092-484f-4ddc-a5e1-dcf08a8448e1.jpg?v=1778128436","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781805330264-evenings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}