BOOK: De Revue - Kees 't Hart

Title: De Revue
Author: Kees 't Hart
Genre: Novel
Publisher: ECI (2000)
Pages: Hardcover, 285
Language: Dutch
Rating: 6/10
Summary: Written from the first person perspective of a man whose been working for an archive-sorting business for over twenty years. On a job in Amsterdam he receives an invitation for a reunion and he remembers when he used to live there as a student, working backstage on the Revue.

Review
The whole premise of the book is leading towards reveiling a 'Big Dark Secret In The Past' that the main character is obviously struggling with. When he was a student he shared the top-floor of a house with one of the chorus-dancers. He had some sort of awkward relationship with the girl, even if he was already dating his future wife. Apparently something dramatic happened that made him run away from the Revue. He tracks down former employees to get a grip on the past. The build up to the reunion is very dramatic and the tiny hints about what happened are intriguing enough to keep reading, but as it turns out the 'Big Dark Secret' maybe wasn't as big and dark as he made it to be, in fact it wasn't even a secret. I was slightly disappointed.