Winner · European Union Prize for Literature 2010
The Guard
by Peter Terrin
2009 novel by Peter Terrin
In a post-apocalyptic world, security guards Harry and Michel, living in the basement of a luxury apartment building, are charged with protecting its wealthy residents. Over the course of one weekend, all the residents leave-- except for one man on the 29th floor.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- Dutch
- Genre
- psychological fiction
- Pages
- 242
- ISBN
- 9781848662940
- Subjects
- Fiction, Apartment houses, Private Police, Dystopias, Nuclear winter, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, general
European Union Prize for Literature 2010
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