Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol

The book has barely a story and barely a protagonist: its hero is a sexless "it" that stands for all of humanity. We follow this creature from the day it hauls itself ashore as a primitive amphibian to the bombing of Hiroshima, by way of cavemen, Roman soldiers, inventors, wars of religion, the Black Death, swelling towns and the voyages of discovery. Again and again the narrator wonders about the hour; the clock moves, people stay as miserable as ever. Slavery, conquest and science are retold in today's everyday language, pulling the past into the present.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

186 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2008 by Contact

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789025429539 (original)

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