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    The Danger and The Enemy
    The Danger and The Enemy
    The Danger and The Enemy
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    The Danger and The Enemy

    By Dirk van Nouhuys

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    Jos Vandeloo is a well-established author in Flemish. His powerful short novel The Danger is a dramatic exposition of the plight of victims of nuclear accidents. Three men who have been exposed large doses of radiation are hospitalized in Isolation because they are a danger to others. Suffering malaise, nausea, skin lesions, and delusions, they try to believe in the possibility of recovery despite ineffective medical treatment. Seeking a more humane environment to regain their health, two execute a bold escape from the hospital only be slowly destroyed by the poison their bodies have absorbed. Vandeloo depicts their tormenting existential crisis with vivid and moving images. Their condition becomes a symbol of the predicament of all mankind faced with the danger of nuclear accidents.

    The Enemy takes us inside the world of Belgian villagers caught between the constantly shifting lines of German and Allied troops in World War II. It is an evocative but unsentimental description of their moods and concern and the dreadful consequences of their actions. The narrator is a 15-year-old boy who comes of age with his lonely outreach to American GI's and his budding love for a local girl in the midst of fear an bitterness as ever-present as the constant rain. The tragic and ironic ending emerges form attempts by the villagers to aid a mortally wounded German soldier.

    These novels have been translated into at least a dozen European and Asian languages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDirk van Nouhuys
    Release dateMay 20, 2011
    ISBN9781458047076
    The Danger and The Enemy
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    Dirk van Nouhuys

    I was born in Berkeley and have lived mostly around the San Francisco bay area. I have a BA from Stanford in creative writing and an MA from Columbia in contemporary literature. I am married and have three grown children. I have mostly earned my way with jobs in technical writing. A few years ago I stopped technical writing to devote full time to fiction.I write short stories, some experimental forms, and occasionally verse, but I think of myself mostly as a novelist, and have written four novels. Two have been serialized in a small literary magazine and several excerpts from them have appeared separately. 70 items of fiction and a few poems have appeared in literary or general magazines. I occasionally publish photography.I have also published technical reports and popular articles about networking and application of computers to text processing. I published a book on Macintosh applications with Wiley in 1985 and a translation of the Flemish novels The Enemy and The Danger by Jos Vandeloo in 1986.You can learn more about me at my web site, www.wandd.com including a complete list of publications.

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