Awards

• Short-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2014 (UK)
• Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014
• Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 (UK)
• Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014.
• Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013
• Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 (UK)
• Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.

Overview

WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE 'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?

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The Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us... One of Bakker's gifts is an ability to place us in a landscape so utterly that the damp begins to seep through the soles of our shoes. -- John Burnside Guardian This is a novel full of hints and mysteries. [It] will almost certainly keep you routed to your chair until the denouement. -- Connie Bensley The Spectator Quietly astonishing -- Jonathan Gibbs Times Literary Supplement Intelligently thoughtful -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times Tranquility and tension create a quiet triumph -- Nadine O'Regan Sunday Business Post

A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humour. <br>--J.M. Coetzee<br> <br> Stealthy, seductive story-telling that draws you into a world of silent rage and quite unexpected relationships. Compelling and convincing from beginning to end. <br>--Tim Parks<br> <br> Bakker's outstanding debut novel, set in the Dutch countryside, is one of those rare works of fiction that everyone should read. <br>-- Irish Times

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Gerbrand Bakker worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. His debut novel The Twin won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and will soon be made into a film. The Detour won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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