Het verdriet van België

The Sorrow of Belgium

Author

Hugo Claus

Language

Dutch

Year

1983

Country

Belgium

Genre

Novel

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The Sorrow of Belgium is a 1983 novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus (1929–2008). The book, widely considered Claus's most important work and "the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century", is a Bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and growing up in Flanders around World War II. It has been described as "one of the great novels of postwar Europe".