The Twin

Awards:   Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010 Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010.
Author:   Gerbrand Bakker ,  David Colmer
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9780099516873


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 May 2009
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Twin


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  • Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010
  • Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010.

Overview

When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm? The Twin is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, The Twin is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing.

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Author:   Gerbrand Bakker ,  David Colmer
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.202kg
ISBN:  

9780099516873


ISBN 10:   009951687
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 May 2009
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Bakker captures the feel of life in the Dutch countryside in a style which is both dazzling and subdued. He has produced a poignant story, recounted in a tone at once spare and loving. -- De Volkskrant <br> After finishing The Twin, all the reader can say is: here is a true writer -- Het Parool <br> Bakker is above all a gifted stylist. -- Trouw <p> From the Hardcover edition.


[An] unusual, memorable novel... Loneliness, combined with the beauty of the landscape, creates an atmosphere of inchoate yearning Guardian This is a quiet book, humble in tone, with a fine, self-deprecating humour... It leaves the reader touched and with the impression of having seen and smelled the ever-damp Dutch platteland TLS Bakker's outstanding debut novel, set in the Dutch countryside, is one of those rare works of fiction that everyone should read Irish Times The pages are infused with the sights and sounds of the Dutch land. You can almost smell the donkeys and wet lambs that he portrays in his sparse, simple language Time Out It could so easily be a bleak tale of regret but Bakker's spartan prose eloquently conveys humour Financial Times


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Gerbrand Bakker worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. The Twin is his prize-winning debut novel and will shortly be made into a film.

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