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The Hairdresser's Son

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
288 Seiten
Englisch
Scribe Publicationserschienen am20.06.2024
Multi-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker´s phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties.Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed in Tenerife in 1977.Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he is not passionate about cutting and shaving. Closed´ appears on his shop´s front door more often than open´, because every customer is a person, and people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next book, and becomes captivated by the story of Simon´s father.As Simon probes the mystery of what happened to his father, a deeply humane and beautifully observed portrait of loneliness emerges in another captivating novel from one of Europe´s greatest storytellers.mehr

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KlappentextMulti-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker´s phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties.Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed in Tenerife in 1977.Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he is not passionate about cutting and shaving. Closed´ appears on his shop´s front door more often than open´, because every customer is a person, and people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next book, and becomes captivated by the story of Simon´s father.As Simon probes the mystery of what happened to his father, a deeply humane and beautifully observed portrait of loneliness emerges in another captivating novel from one of Europe´s greatest storytellers.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-914484-72-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum20.06.2024
Seiten288 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 131 mm, Höhe 197 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht249 g
Artikel-Nr.14253842
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Autor

Gerbrand Bakker was born in 1962. He studied Dutch language and literature and worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. Bakker won the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin (Vintage, 2009) and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel The Detour (Vintage, 2013).