◆ Book of the Week

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A weekly pick from Huzzah Books, the independent bookstore at 114 Clement St. in Boone. They choose the book and say why it's worth your time. We put it on the dial and point you straight to their shelves.


Cover of An Untouched House

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An Untouched House

Willem Frederik Hermans, translated by David Colmer

Archipelago · $16.00

Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago, 2017. Perfect Bound Soft Cover. Madness abounds in the waning months of World War II, until a weary Dutch Partisan chances upon a luxurious, intact estate in an abandoned spa town. For a time, clean linens and running water replace unremitting bloodshed as the defining features of the nameless narrator’s life; then the Germans retake the village. When they reach his new front door, the Partisan quickly accepts that he must...

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