Harry Mulisch: Siegfried

[BlueNinja]

Dutch novelist Rudolf Herter has been invited to Vienna on a press junket in support of his current bestselling novel. He happens upon an elderly couple who reveal to him a long-held secret: Hitler had a son. Herter, real-life book author Harry Mulisch's alter character, is astonished. And the reader is astonished. The Falks, domestic servants working at Adolf's Bavarian retreat, tell him the tale, and these chapters are the strongest in the book.
It is too bad the book finished so fast, it could have continued and get better and better. Maybe the author didn't knew what to write anymore. What do you think about it?

 

[Polly Parrot]

Ahh, I've tried to read this one but didn't like it. I'm not a big fan of Mulisch so that must be it.

 

[Peder]

And I'm not a big fan of the other guy. So I'll pass.

 

[lies]

I'm wouldn't call myself a big fan of Mulisch, but I did love his Discovery of Heaven and I've been meaning to read some more of his work. I was leaning towards his De aanslag (I'm sorry, but I don't know the English title off the top of my head), but maybe I should give this a shot?