Twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk is living with his parents and older brother on the outskirts of Haarlem in January 1945 under Nazi Occupation. The novel consists of a brief prologue and five "episodes" dated 1945, 1952, 1956, 1966, and 1981. It was translated into dozens of languages and immediately adapted into a film of the same name that won the 1986 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. According to the New York Times, this novel "made his reputation at home and abroad". It covers 35 years in the life of the lone survivor of a night in Haarlem during World War II when the Nazi occupation forces, finding a Dutch collaborator murdered, retaliate by killing most of the family in front of whose home the body was found. Random House published an English translation by Claire Nicolas White in 1985. The Assault (original title in Dutch: De aanslag) is a 1982 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch.
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