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Archipelago Books
April 2009
On Sale: April 1, 2009
250 pages
ISBN: 0980033020
EAN: 9780980033021
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Fiction Family Life
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return from university life to take over his brotherβs 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 Helmerβs 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 oneβs 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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