5/20/2023 0 Comments The assault by harry mulisch![]() ![]() Ploeg has fallen, dead, in front of their neighbor’s home. This is “the assault” from which the novel takes its name. Fake Ploeg, a Nazi Inspector, has been assassinated on their street. Just as the family is poised to begin playing a board game before retiring to bed, they hear six gunshots that will change Anton’s life forever. The family home stands on a quay surrounded by three other family homes. They are subject to food and goods rationing as well as a strict military curfew, and they have moved their entire life into one room in their house. Steenwijk, and the eldest son, Peter-live a piecemeal existence within their home. The city is under Nazi occupation, and the Steenwijk family-Anton, Mr. The Assault opens on a January evening in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1945. ![]()
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