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Will
Jeroen Olyslaegers (movie tie-in)
- Pushkin (Faber)
- by by Jeroen Olyslaegers. Translated by David Colmer
- 9781782279006 | EN | PB-B
Wilfried Wils is an auxiliary policeman in Antwerp at the start of the Second World War. The city is in the grip of violence and distrust. Wilfried does what he can for himself, avoiding paths that are too slippery. He receives attention and material support from a man who has sided with the German occupier, Nijdig Baardje (''Angry Beard''), but he also enjoys the confidence of his anti-Nazi colleague Lode, brother to Wilfried''s love Yvette.
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| Publisher | Pushkin (Faber) |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781782279006 |
| Author(s) | by Jeroen Olyslaegers. Translated by David Colmer |
| Publication date | January 2024 |
| Edition | Paperback (B format) |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Pages | 352 |
| Language(s) | English ed. |
| extra information | Available on Netflix |
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The Times historical fiction book of the year A tense, thrilling, morally murky read, set in Nazi-occupied Antwerp and inspired by the author''s own family history of collaboration during WW2 It is 1941, and Antwerp is in the grip of Nazi occupation. Young policeman Wilfried Wils has no intention of being a hero - but war has a way of catching up with people. When his idealistic best friend draws him into the growing resistance movement, and an SS commander tries to force him into collaborating, Wilfried''s loyalties become horribly, fatally torn. As the beatings, destruction and round-ups intensify across the city, he is forced into an act that will have consequences he could never have imagined. A searing portrayal of a man trying to survive amid the treachery, compromises and moral darkness of occupation, Will asks what any of us would risk to fight evil. WIL is een Belgische-Nederlands-Poolse film uit 2023, geregisseerd door Tim Mielants en gebaseerd op het gelijknamige boek van Jeroen Olyslaegers. WIL is a 2023 Belgian-Dutch-Polish film, directed by Tim Mielants and based on the book of the same name by Jeroen Olyslaegers.