Euforie

Forty people die when terrorists strike in the heart of The Hague. Johannes Vermeer, an architect who may descend from the painter, helps pull the wounded out and thinks one of the injured is a woman he once loved, yet afterwards he tells no one he was there and cannot say why. His firm then enters the competition for a building on the site that will double as a memorial, which ties his private life to his career, and when his presence at the scene leaks out the press turns on him. The story doubles as a portrait of a generation raised on the boom of the 1990s and of a country full of rigged deals and media frenzy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

400 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands

First published

2012 by De Arbeiderspers

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789029586276 (original)