![]() It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin ultimately poses difficult questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into one’s own hands. In 2013 Bakker also Details Boven is het stil(2006). It has been translated into 24 languages. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer’s twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. WINNER OF THE 2010 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2007 LIBRIS LITERATURE PRIZE When his twin brother dies in a car accident. 1962) is a novelist, diarist and columnist who broke through in 2006 with Boven is het stil(The Twin), which won three prizes in his native Netherlands and another five abroad, most notably the Dublin Literary Award. 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. Gerbrand Bakker (translated from Dutch by David Colmer) The Twin By Gerbrand Bakker (translated by David Colmer) Hardcover, 250 pages Archipelago List price: 25 One I've put Father upstairs. Shortlisted for Three Percent’s 2010 Best Translated Book AwardĪn NPR pick for Best Foreign Fiction of 2009Ī School Library Journal Best Adult Book for High School Students, 2009 ![]()
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