The Twin - Hardcover
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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'...a quiet book, humble in tone, with a fine, self-deprecating humour... It leaves the reader touched' -- Times Literary Supplement
'An unusual, memorable novel... Loneliness, combined with the beauty of the landscape, creates an atmosphere of inchoate yearning' -- Guardian
'Intelligent debut... Wonderful stuff from a Dutch writer with a feel for believable characters and a flair for what should be said and what needs only to be hinted'
-- Irish Times Books of the Year
'It could so easily be a bleak tale of regret but Bakker's spartan prose eloquently conveys... humour' -- FT
Stealthy, seductive story-telling that draws you into a world of silent rage and quite unexpected relationships. Compelling and convincing from beginning to end.
-- Tim Parks
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'An unusual, memorable novel... Loneliness, combined with the beauty of the landscape, creates an atmosphere of inchoate yearning' -- Guardian
'Intelligent debut... Wonderful stuff from a Dutch writer with a feel for believable characters and a flair for what should be said and what needs only to be hinted'
-- Irish Times Books of the Year
'It could so easily be a bleak tale of regret but Bakker's spartan prose eloquently conveys... humour' -- FT
Stealthy, seductive story-telling that draws you into a world of silent rage and quite unexpected relationships. Compelling and convincing from beginning to end.
-- Tim Parks
'Intelligent debut... Wonderful stuff from a Dutch writer with a feel for believable characters and a flair for what should be said and what needs only to be hinted'
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846551374
- ISBN 13 9781846551376
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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