by Gerbrand Bakker · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099516873
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«The Twin» is the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Helmer returns to the Dutch family farm after the death of his twin brother in an accident. His elderly father moves upstairs, and Helmer tries to rebuild his life between the countryside and the arrival of Ada and Riet, his brother's former fiancée, who comes with her son. A story of grief, identity and rural life.
Originally published in Dutch, with an English translation by David Colmer; the Vintage edition is from 2009.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially those who enjoy rural and family stories with an undertone of grief.
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.
