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The Twin - 9781935744047

Un libro in lingua di Gerbrand Bakker Colmer David (TRN) edito da Archipelago Books, 2010

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"A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humor."?J. M. Coetzee

"Gerbrand Bakker's writing is so fabulously clear, so clear that each sentence leaves a rippling wake."?Los Angeles Times

"Oustanding. . . . Full of life and truth. . . . One of those rare works of fiction that everyone should read."?The Irish Times

An NPR pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year, The Twin is a stunning novel about finding oneself among family and the ties that bind.

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow."

The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to Helmer's twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while.

The Twin poses complex questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into one's own hands. Set in the beautiful landscape of the Dutch countryside, it chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing.

Gerbrand Bakker lives in the Netherlands.

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