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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
brother’s 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 Helmer’s 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 one’s 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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