Shellfish grows up in a Dutch coastal village polluted by the local steel plant. The factory or the distribution centre: these are the choices ahead. Both are work in places without windows, dictated by the clock. But Shellfish dreams of a different future: to no longer serve, but be a master. Will Shellfish succeed in breaking free? If we cannot outgrow the circumstances we were born in, does that mean we've failed at life? Surrender on Demand is about the difference between people who get to choose their future and those who have to suffer their fate. About villagers and day-trippers. About casual violence. And about seagulls. A carnivalesque, satirical, intense, big, small novel about class and destiny.
