The Detour

The Detour

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WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE’A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties’ Lloyd Jones, author of Mister PipA Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?

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Weight 0.171 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2013-3-7
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099563673
About The Author

Gerbrand Bakker worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. His debut novel The Twin won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and will soon be made into a film. The Detour won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Simple and devastating
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The Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us

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