Book Wish by Jeroen Olyslaegers

Book as new, read once. It is war. Antwerp is occupied by violence and mistrust. Wilfried Wils considers himself a poet in the making, but at the same time he has to survive as an auxiliary agent. The beautiful Yvette falls in love with him, her brother Lode is a daredevil who risks his neck for Jews. Wilfried's artistic mentor, Angry Beard, wants to destroy all Jews. Uncomfortably hovering between two worlds, Wilfried tries to survive while the hunt for the Jews continues unabated. Years later, he tells his story to one of his descendants. WIL is a bold, ambitious and versatile novel in which no one escapes the dance. Olyslaegers challenges the widely accepted boundaries between good and evil and lets the book resonate ingeniously with the twenty-first century. He has already proven his mastery before, but WIL will surprise everyone completely.