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Tim Krabbe
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Pages: 108 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 067941973X
Pub: Random House Inc (T)
Pub date: 1993-09
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 320047
Reader Reviews:
Deceptively simple (5/5 people found this helpful)
The Vanishing is a very short, concise book, but the effect of the story stays with you and really plays on your mind.
The story of a man whose girlfriend mysteriously vanishes whilst they are holidaying in France may not seem that original, but with the creation of the emotionless, monstrous sociopath Lemorne, Krabbe takes the book into fascinating and genuinely chilling territory. The documentation of his gradual progression from detached intellectual observer into twisted murderer is unforgetable, all the while as calm and removed as the character himself.
The only flaw is that at times, the phrasing and the abundance of exclamation marks grates, perhaps due to its translation from the original Dutch, hence three rather than four stars.
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