This is a book that restores one's faith in meticulous realism. 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.
Gerbrand Bakker's tone and language make the despondent yet valiant narrator utterly authentic and the plain rural setting mesmerizing. The plot of this unusual novel is simple, but its power is mysterious. Paul Binding I have rarely been so captivated by a voice. its extraordinary last section suggesting that fulfillment of long-standing aspirations can arrive, unanticipated, in late middle-age. It contains scenes of enveloping psychological force. Tim Parks This is a novel of great brilliance and subtlety. Compelling and convincing from beginning to end. Coetzee Stealthy, seductive story-telling that draws you into a world of silent rage and quite unexpected relationships. WINNER - THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humor. "The Twin" appeared in Dutch in 2006 and was awarded the Golden Dog-Ear, a prize for the best-selling literary debut. 1962) studied Dutch language and literature and workedas a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. Reading a book like that is joyous, especially when it keeps rereading itself in your head, your heart, and your life for a few days or weeks afterwards."-Elizabeth Bachner, BookslutWinner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest and most international prize of its kind that involves libraries from all corners of the globe, "The Twin" was also a 2009 NPR pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year and a Powell's Indiespensable Pick.Gerbrand Bakker (b. It has a protagonist with a unique voice. It's subtle, quiet, hilarious, cruel, beautiful, and somehow exhilarating in all of its understatement. One of those rare works of fiction that everyone should read."-"The Irish Times""I just finished "The Twin" by Gerbrand Bakker, which is basically all about themes that I associate with crushing boredom-farmers and old, sick parents and rural areas-but I couldn't put it down. The great pleasure of this novel is how it has just enough plot to allow us to relish its beautifully turned observations of birds and beasts, weather and water."-Tim Parks, "The New York Review of Books""Gerbrand Bakker's writing is so fabulously clear, so clear that each sentence leaves a rippling wake."-"Los Angeles Times""Oustanding. Coetzee"The charm of Bakker's book is how finely every element is balanced, how perfectly the story is paced.
"A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humor."-J.
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