The Cannibal
Lute manages the sales department of a pharmaceutical company somewhere in the green heart of the Netherlands. One day he is told they are to be taken over by a large Swiss corporation. And not only that – all the staff in the department he is responsible for will be made redundant.
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Original title
De menseneter
Author
Tom Hofland
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‘Hofland adds something extra, something distinct which also characterises his other work: a combination of irony, absurdism and suspense. These elements are hard to balance – it’s easy for it to end up being silly, opaque or too random. But in The Cannibal he gets it just right. The story is both witty and suspenseful – a rare combination.’
de Volkskrant
‘This kind of combination of hilarity and astuteness is very rare – a book like this is one-of-a-kind.’
Het Parool
Tom Hofland
Tom Hofland (b. 1990) is a writer and podcaster. 'The Cannibal' (2022) is his third novel.