A modern day masterpiece and the most critically acclaimed Dutch novel of the 20th century���inally available in English and shortlisted by Three Percent as one of the best translated books of
2008
During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck, who strangely proves to be Osewoudt�'s spitting image in reverse. Dorbeck assigns Osewoudt
to commit a series of dangerous assignments, but things quickly go awry, with Osewouldt eventually killing his own wife. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. Osewoudt
cannot prove that he received assignments from Dorbeck���e cannot even prove that his doppelganger ever existed.
As it forces readers to confront questions of morality and power, right and wrong, The Darkroom of Damocles builds to a stunning conclusion.
