Gerbrand Bakker

The Twin

Übersetzung:Colmer, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, The Twin is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 601724
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780099516873
• ISBN-10: 009951687X
• Artikelnr.: 25903315

Autorenporträt

Gerbrand Bakker worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. The Twin is his prize-winning debut novel and will shortly be made into a film.

Rezensionen

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