The Detour
A European Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction book. He lifts each item from the old refridgerator. Turning them in his hand he examines...
The new novel, set in the UK, from the author of the Impac Prize-winning bestseller The Twin. A Dutch woman, a university English lecturer researching the work of Emily Dickinson, rents a farm in remote, rural Wales. When she arrives, there are ten geese living on the farm, but one by one they disappear. Perhaps it's the work of a local fox. The reason for her move abroad gradually becomes clear: her husband is trying to track her down. Having confessed to an affair with one of her students in Amsterdam, she has quietly fled to Wales from a situation that had become unbearable. Her husband contacts the police and teams up with a detective to go and look for her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. But in the meantime, the woman increasingly seems to be losing her grip on the situation. Gerbrand Bakker has made the territories of isolation, inner turmoil and the solace offered by the natural world his own. The Detour is a gripping and subtle new novel.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 230 pages
- ISBN: 9780099563679 / 99563673
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Faultier than most books I'd give four stars. It's just that the scenario is terribly similar to All The Birds Singing by Evie Wyld, which got 3.5, and I like this a little better. Like All the Birds, it's a second novel and a literary thriller, in which a foreign woman is living on a remote British farm, on the run from something or... Wat een pareltje, deze roman van Gerbrand Bakker. Prachtig 'kaal' geschreven, zo passend in de sfeer van het landschap waar het verhaal zich afspeelt: het Welshe platteland van begin van de winter. Bakker laat veel van de innerlijke belevingswereld van zijn hoofdpersoon aan de verbeelding over, terwijl hij tegelijkertijd een prachtig... He lifts each item from the old refridgerator. Turning them in his hand he examines them. Some he considers worn, used and re-cooked, bland with age. Over a sideboard he slices and grates, pares. Then, he places the unlovely shavings into the heating tomato sauce. From a secreted drawer he raises the wooden ladle. Its scars from use...
