{"product_id":"last-call-9780140156010","title":"Last Call","description":"\"This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUli Bouwmeester is a retired variety artiste who spends his days whiling away his time. Out of the blue, an invitation arrives to play the leading part in a new drama at the Actor's Theater in Amsterdam, and he is flung with a vengeance from the monotony of life in the suburbs into the reality of the 1980s. All goes well until a television crew arrives to interview Uli, revealing a secret from his past that threatens not only the success of the theater's enterprise but also Uli's life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In his corner of Europe, Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch is creating some of the more haunting, provocative fiction to emerge from the continent in the past decade.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Mulisch is author of the international bestsellers \u003cb\u003eThe Assault\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Discovery of Heaven\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Procedure\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as other novels, short stories, essays, poetry, plays, and philosophical works.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158532813074,"sku":"9780140156010","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fadaff2a-49c3-4b21-a530-e3eea417dd63.jpg?v=1774964598","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-call-9780140156010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}