The Twin

Gerbrand Bakker

Original title: Boven is het stil

earliest edition we have, 2006 Archipelago Books, 2009

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 eigh...

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The twin edition · 2009 · Archipelago Books · 9780980033021
The Twin ebook · 2009 · Archipelago Books · 9780981987330
The twin edition · 2008 · Harvill Secker · 283 pages · 9781846551376
Boven is het stil paperback · 2006 · cossee · 264 pages · 9789059362284
Boven is het stil edition · 2006 · Cossee · 264 pages

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