The Twin Tapa dura - 2008

Name: The Twin
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Author: Bakker, Gerbrand
ISBN: 9781846551376

de Gerbrand Bakker

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Resumen

When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return from university life to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days with his head under a cow. Thirty years later, Helmer moves his invalid father upstairs to have him out of the way. Soon after, Riet, once engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if she and her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come to live with them on the farm. Ostensibly a novel about the canals, the green fields, and the unrelenting flatness of the Dutch countryside, The Twin ultimately opens itself to the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity and is culturally apart, yet is riven with longing.

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Translated from the Dutch.

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Título The Twin
Autor Gerbrand Bakker
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Edición 1st Edition
Páginas 343
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Harvill Press, London,UK
Fecha de publicación 2008-06-03
ISBN 9781846551376 / 1846551374
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008045725
Dewey Decimal Code 839.313

Reseñas en medios

“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

“After finishing The Twin, all the reader can say is: here is a true writer”
—Het Parool

“Bakker is above all a gifted stylist.”
—Trouw

"A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humour.”
—J.M. Coetzee

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The Twin

de Bakker, Gerbrand

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13

9781846551376 / 1846551374

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Better World Books Ltd

Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom

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Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.