by Agota Kristof · AMSTERDAM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416743841
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«Claus i Lucas» is the volume collecting Agota Kristof's trilogy, published by Amsterdam in paperback (424 pages, in Catalan).
Twin brothers Claus and Lucas are sent to a border town in an occupied country as the war nears its end. Taken in by their cruel grandmother, they impose exercises on themselves to withstand cold, hunger, and pain, and record their progress in a notebook. The work explores identity, cruelty, and survival.
Volume collecting the trilogy: «El gran quadern», «La prova», and «La tercera mentida», translated by Sergi Pàmies.
For readers aged 16 and up, especially those interested in contemporary European fiction and war stories.
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
