THE 29-YEAR -OLD author of this im-1 pressive Dutch debut, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, grew up on a dairy farm in North Brabant. Cows, in this telling, are sensitive creatures; sick cows are the sweetest kind. "You could stroke them gently without them suddenly kicking back at you." The meagre comfort in "The Discomfort of Evening" comes from these beasts; the humans in this searing novel, shortlisted for the International Booker prize, are too numb with pain to be able to console anyone.
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机译：这位im-1压力式荷兰首演的作者29岁，玛丽·卢卡斯·里涅维德（Marieke Lucas Rijneveld）在北布拉班特州的一家奶牛场长大。在这种情况下，母牛是敏感的动物。病牛是最甜的。 “你可以轻柔地抚摸他们，而不会突然向你踢去。”这些“野兽”中的“微弱安慰”来自这些野兽。入围国际布克奖提名的这部灼人小说中的人类太麻木了，无法安慰任何人。
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