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Winner of the European Union Literature Prize, Peter Terrin's The Guard is a haunting novel of perceived oppression by the an omnipresent, but unknown, authority.
In the near future, Harry and Michel live in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the inhabitants. No one goes outside. The world might be at war, it might even have been plunged into nuclear winter. No one knows.
But one weekend, all of the residents leave the block, one by one. All but the man on floor 29. Harry and Michel stick to their posts. All they know, all they can hope for, is that if they are vigilant, the "Organization" will reward them with a promotion to an elite cadre of security officers. But what if there were no one left to guard?
Playing on our darkest fears, The Guard is a tautly observed novel by a writer of striking and stylish originality.
- Sales Rank: #3085213 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Released on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.75" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Review
"The Guard is a novel that leaves you astonished with its beauty and completeness."―NRC Handelsblad
"The Guard is a sublime book... a brilliantly told story."―Karin Overmars, Het Parool
"The Guard is so good, its world so minutely described and Michel so undeniably compelling that to suggest anything other than to pick this up and read it immediately would be to do it a disservice."―SciFi Now
"A mix of psychological thriller and SF fable, this strange, wonderfully claustrophobic novel."―John O'Connell, The Guardian
"A rich and gripping mix of all the ingredients that make for a truly haunting atmosphere."―Valeria Melchioretto, Writers' Hub
�??There's a cold and beautiful precision to Peter Terrin's writing, and a remorselessness and finally terrifying accretion of detail that begins by seeming fussy and ends by being unsettling."―SFX
"Terrin tells a strongly allegorical story of 21st-century society, which holds the reader under its spell... The Guard is not only an enthralling psychological novel, it is also a love story, one which encompasses oppressiveness, emotion and explicit sensuality."―from the European Union Literature Prize citation
"Terrin wastes no time sucking the audience into the narrative... you simply won't want to put the book down until you find out exactly what's going on."―Joe Royce, Starburst Magazine
"Terrin's wonderfully sinister, darkly funny novel owes more to this genre than to simple SF. Guards Harry and narrator Michel keep watch in a tower block basement as the 'New War' empties the city. Many twists ensue. Finely translated (from Dutch) by David Colmer, the deadpan, exact, discomfiting prose keeps an icy grip."―Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
"This is a tremendous novel, often horrifically funny and always unsettling. Most emphatically, though, it is a European novel, articulating the cultural situation of a Flanders-born writer looking to Dutch literature while retaining a powerful awareness of Belgium's surrealist traditions."―Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
"Webs of Pinteresque paranoia... Effectively horrid."―David Langford, The Sunday Telegraph
"Terrin has enriched Flemish literature with a clever novel about modern, yet simultaneously universal, paranoia that ends in a perfect psychological pas de deux."―De Morgen
"wryly funny"―Booklist
"Science fiction meets Samuel Beckett in this Godot-like tale . . . a disarming allegory for the conflict-ridden, anxiety-producing times we live in."
―Kirkus Reviews
"Chillingly claustrophobic and ominous . . . what develops into the existential love story between Michel and Harry, the postmodern grandkids of Vladimir and Estragon (if not Stan and Ollie), gains a genuine poignancy."―Locus
About the Author
Flemish novellist Peter Terrin has been described as "a master of ominous detail" and is considered by critics to be a literary maverick, a classic writer who doesn't follow trends, and a masterful stylist. He has also written for the theatre and is active as a columnist. Terrin was the recipient of the European Union Literature prize and has been nominated for major literary awards several times, including the AKO Literature, Libris Literature, and the West Flanders Prizes for Literature.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Good start but spoilt (for me) by enigmatic last third
By Dr John Albiston
****PLOT SPOILERS****
Sad to say I didn't enjoy the book. It started well- an interesting exercise in minimalist story telling. At times it it reminded me of Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' and J G Ballard's 'Highrise' but I never felt it went anywhere. The beginning had me gripped with it's attention to small detail and the way small matters of routine became inflated in importance with repetition. But I can't say I really understood the last 1/3. I would love someone to explain it to me- was he dead? Was he alone the whole time? What was real? What was imaginary? Shades of Golding's 'Pincher Martin' again- so many of these types of enigmatic storylines remind me of that book that I was made to read at school.
I'm totally non-plussed by it winning some European lit award...
It reinforces my wariness of any book that is described as "a modern day fable..."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Decent story loses its way and becomes too confusing in the final act.
By Dr.Gonzo
I love post-apocalyptic fiction. I am a fan of the theater of the absurd like Waiting for Godot. I thought I would love this book. Turns out I didn't really care for it.
The first act was well done and sets the stage. Act II steers the story in a darker direction. My problem came with act III. Act III was weird and confusing and I didn't enjoy it at all. It left my with an overall negative impression of the story. I don't need a hollywood ending to my books but I expected something more than I got from this book and it felt like the author cheated me after I had invested my time in reading his story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
50 pages too many.
By monica
Harry and Michael are security guards working and living in the parking level of an apartment building the tenants have all deserted. Indeed the entire neighbourhood--perhaps the whole city--may have been abandoned. The two have no way of knowing, because apart from a fellow worker who delivers supplies at erratic intervals no one has entered or left the building for what seems a long time.
The Guard is atmospheric, for the most part well-plotted, and written well. The story is presented as a series of vignettes in very short chapters, and the organisation of these and the transitions between them are done with skill. And that the author fails to give answers to the questions a reader will have is for me quite satisfying; one never learns why the guards are treated as they are by their employer, what has happened in the outside world (Terrin might offer a clue on occasion, though I'm not even sure of that), and what will happen after the book's end.
The Guard is divided into three sections. The first section is all but spellbinding and the third one is. The second, which is perhaps one-fifth of the book, feels much longer than that and falls flat. In it a new element is introduced into the story and we learn more about Harry. This part of the book is predictable--anyone who's seen a few Hollywood films knows the outcome--and repetitious: the change in Harry is hammered home in several similar passages. Despite the drama it contains, Part 2 simply isn't very interesting, and I wasn't altogether certain as I read it that I'd bother to finish the book. It isn't that the story suddenly becomes a bad one but it is for a while a rather boring one. Perhaps it's because all that occurs in that section is more clear-cut, nearly heavy-handedly so, and that the atmosphere and mystery are because of that dissipated.
I shall almost certainly re-read this and if I do I hope that I'll then find Part 2 not to be the sticking-point it was first time 'round.
3 1/2 stars
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