The Twin - Couverture rigide

Bakker, Gerbrand

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0980033020 ISBN 13 : 9780980033021

Editeur : Archipelago Books, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Bakker Gerbrand

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

WINNER - THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humor. —J.M. Coetzee

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

This is a novel of great brilliance and subtlety. It contains scenes of enveloping psychological force . . . its extraordinary last section suggesting that fulfillment of long-standing aspirations can arrive, unanticipated, in late middle-age. —Paul Binding

I have rarely been so captivated by a voice. The plot of this unusual novel is simple, but its power is mysterious. Gerbrand Bakker’s tone and language make the despondent yet valiant narrator utterly authentic and the plain rural setting mesmerizing. The family drama has the quality of myth, yet remains rooted in daily reality, so much so that I responded with the innocent surrender of a child reader: I had lived on that Dutch farm and shared the characters’ tragedies and small triumphs. This is a book that restores one’s faith in meticulous realism. —Lynne Sharon

Schwartz I found The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. I finished it, weeping, a day later, and have been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. I've recommended it again and again. —Amy Waldman, All Things Considered, NPR

This is a quiet book, humble in tone, with a fine, self-deprecating humour [...] It leaves the reader touched and with the impression of having seen and smelled the ever-damp Dutch platteland. —Times Literary Supplement

Quatrième de couverture :

[An] unusual, memorable novel... Loneliness, combined with the beauty of the landscape, creates an atmosphere of inchoate yearning - Guardian

This is a quiet book, humble in tone, with a fine, self-deprecating humour... It leaves the reader touched and with the impression of having seen and smelled the ever-damp Dutch platteland - TLS

Bakker's outstanding debut novel, set in the Dutch countryside, is one of those rare works of fiction that everyone should read - Irish Times

It could so easily be a bleak tale of regret but Bakker's spartan prose eloquently conveys humour - Financial Times

Intensely moving and compelling - Literary Review

Helmer lives on a remote farm in the flat expanses of the Dutch Platteland with his elderly father, caring for a small flock of sheep and his two beloved donkeys. It is a life he did not wish for; forced to return home following the death of his twin brother many years before. Deciding a change is needed, Helmer moves his dying father to an upstairs room, and begins to decorate. One day, his brothers' former fiancée appears unannounced, with her teenage son. Choices appear before Helmer for the first time. Will he be able to seek the life he wants, or has it escaped his grasp?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Archipelago Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0980033020
• ISBN 13: 9780980033021
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 343