by Gerbrand Bakker · RAYO VERDE EDITORIAL,S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415539643
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«Deu oques blanques» is a contemporary novel by Gerbrand Bakker, published by Rayo Verde Editorial in paperback (240 pages, in Catalan).
A woman who calls herself Emilie rents an isolated farm in Wales. On the farm there are ten white geese that disappear without explanation. As a stranger approaches the farm, Bakker explores Emilie's flight, identity and solitude with a slow, ambiguous prose, far from the conventional thriller.
Original title: De omweg. Novel 9 of the Raigs globulars collection. The translation from Dutch is by Maria Rosich. The work won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.
For readers of contemporary fiction, interested in Dutch literature and stories with a rural 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.
