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title: "The Evenings: A Winter's Tale"
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# The Evenings: A Winter's Tale

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Wonderful Book
  

*by E***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2017*

Judging by the reviews below, there are two types of readers - those who see the "The Evenings" as some kind of miracle - a masterpiece coming to light after seventy years. And those who are puzzled/bored/annoyed at all the fuss. I'm among those shaking their heads in wonder.  The book is hypnotic, a little weird, but human - and funny, if you tune into its subtle, ultra-brittle humor. "The Evenings" is a work of austere brilliance.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Pitcher of the Wry
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017*

In a city in the Netherlands in the late 40's, a male twenty-something office worker lives with his parents in a modest apartment. The book covers his thoughts about, and conversations with, family and friends over several days during the Christmas and New Years holidays. He is intelligent, sarcastic, dark, cynical, insecure; perhaps an underachiever. It seems that his running commentary is a justification for his existence, or a way to avoid facing  the banality of his life.Some have compared this to "Catcher in the Rye." It is not that good. I really never came to care for the character, and skimmed through some  scenes to finish the book. But, as a literary device of sorts, it has some appeal.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Pity there isn't a Minus-Five-Star rating:  Your time is TOO valuable to waste on this boring, pointless book!
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2017*

"The Evenings" may or may not be the worst book I've ever read, but it is certainly in the running for that prize (my real rating is "zero stars" -- perhaps "minus five stars" for the waste of time and money).  Always on the look-out for the all-too-rare translations of Dutch novelists (e.g., the fine but neglected Hermans, Mulisch, Multatuli, et al.), I pounced on this translation of Gerard Reve title as soon as I saw it.  The Tim Parks and Lydia Davis jacket blurbs gave reassurance that I would be "breathless right through the grand finale" (Parks) and that this "important classic" would prove "funny" and "peculiar" (Davis).  Peculiarly bad, perhaps?  Maybe these blurbs were accommodations for fellow-translator Sam Garrett -- but they certainly cannot accurately describe this ghastly, boring, pointless book.  On the basis of Parks's and Davis's recommendations, I kept reading to the end, imagining (hoping) that the numbing repetitiveness would lead somewhere . . . anywhere.  Parks must have a very different sense of what makes for a "grand finale."  What lapses of taste and judgment must have led two respected writer-reviewers to lend their names to this travesty of a novel, one can only wonder.  I fear I must now take Parks's and Davis's reviews cum grano salis.  As for Reve's book:  what shapeless, repetitive, self-indulgent twaddle.

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