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Is this the best book you've never heard of?

Our guests discuss a Dutch novel translated into English 70 years after first released.

Dutch novelist Gerard Reve's 'The Evenings' will be published in English for the first time, 70 years after it was originally released.

Victor Shiferli from the Foundation for Dutch Literature, and Adam Freudenheim, a publisher at Pushkin Press, discuss the charms behind the book that finally persuaded Pushkin to translate and publish it.

(Photo: Old books. Credit: 麻豆社)

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