Last Call

This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years.--<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/>Uli 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. <p/>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.--<i>New York Newsday</i>