by Gerbrand Bakker · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789059362949
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«De omweg» is a literary novel by Gerbrand Bakker, published by Cossee in 2010 (235 pages, in Dutch).
A woman leaves Amsterdam and takes refuge in an old house in Wales to start over. As she tries to rebuild herself amid winter, geese, and an enigmatic young man, her husband and a policeman follow her trail. The novel weaves together solitude, grief, and the search for meaning.
It won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Libris Literatuurprijs 2011 and the Dublin Literary Award 2014.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who value intimate novels with sober prose, a slow pace, and a melancholic atmosphere.
Gerbrand Bakker is a Dutch writer. He won the International Dublin Literary Award for The Twin, the English translation of his novel Boven is het stil, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Detour, the English translation of his novel De omweg. Both novels were translated by co-winner David Colmer.
