The Golden Egg

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The Golden Egg
Author Tim Krabbé
Original title Het Gouden Ei
Translator Claire Nicolas White (first English edition)
Country Netherlands
Language Dutch
Genre(s) Psychological, Thriller novel
Publisher Uitgeverij Bert Bakker (first edition)
Random House (first English edition)
Publication date 1984
Published in
English
1993
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-679-41973-X (first English edition)

The Golden Egg (Het Gouden Ei) is a Dutch psychological thriller novel written by Tim Krabbé, first published in 1984.

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It was adapted by George Sluizer (from a script by Krabbé) into the award-winning 1988 film Spoorloos (international title:The Vanishing). An American remake of the film was released in 1993, again directed by Sluizer.

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In 1993, an English translation by Claire Nicolas White was released under the title The Vanishing (Random House, ISBN 0-679-41973-X). A new English translation of the novel, by Sam Garrett, was published in October 2003 (Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-747-56533-3 ).

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