Ebook {Epub PDF} The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker

 · The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker. Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat as the Dutch landscape in which it’s set. Yet lurking in the white spaces is something one can sense, if not pin down precisely. A moody sense of colors – of grey and blue – of silvery insights breaking through a dull day, and of moving between the modern world and a rural life Author: Elinor Teele. The English translation of the title of Gerbrand Bakker's novel, The Twin, is appropriate enough, as the narrator Helmer van Wonderen is a twin, and his story is very much one of finding that other half of himself that he lost when his twin brother died more than three decades earlier -- but it misses the feel of the subtler, sinister Dutch title, Boven is het stil ('It's quiet upstairs').Author: Gerbrand Bakker.  · The Twin. U pstairs in a Dutch farmhouse in the s, a father lies dying, confined to his bedroom. He is being cared for by his son Helmer, a lonely middle-aged farmer with two pet donkeys Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.

Gerbrand Bakker, the author, is actually a trained gardener by profession, and, in his novel, he includes descriptions of the Dutch countryside, emphasising birds (crows, gulls) and animals (cows, donkeys) movements to invoke special atmosphere where the monotony of farm life is only transformed with changing seasons (swimming in summer and. The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, trans. David Colmer Psychological force in a twin narrative. Reviewed, Paul Binding. Sunday 23 October comments. Article bookmarked. As with the Archipelago Press edition of his later novel, TEN WHITE GEESE, Gerbrand Bakker's THE TWIN has a lovely cover. In this case, a picture of half a dozen cows in a flooded field in Holland, the animals and the big Dutch sky reflected in the water like a mirror. It is a beautiful picture, spacious and calm -- and entirely uneventful.

The Twin is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. 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. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. Schwartz I found The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in I finished it, weeping, a day later, and have been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. I've recommended it again and again. —Amy Waldman, All Things Considered, NPR. The Twin. U pstairs in a Dutch farmhouse in the s, a father lies dying, confined to his bedroom. He is being cared for by his son Helmer, a lonely middle-aged farmer with two pet donkeys for.